It's a perfectly gorgeous piece of music and lyrics, yes. We love Kate.

The story and the metaphor in this poem have always grabbed me. The woman, I assume, has been shipwrecked, and is dangling in the middle of the ocean, trying not to fall asleep so that she doesn't drown. She wants really badly to give up and go to sleep, because it would be so much easier than all this fighting to keep alert.

I posted this because it sums up my life right now, better than I could do in words.