If I Had Eyes

"If I Had Eyes" is about the sad breakup of a long-term relationship.

Johnson revealed in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph November 30, 2007 that he had help from his 3-year-old son Moe for this song. According to Johnson, Moe is a helpful source of ideas for his songs, and he contributed to the chorus of "If I Had Eyes." Johnson told the interviewer with a smile: "I'll have to give him a songwriting credit. But the little conversations we're having are ending up as the basis for a lot of songs, because he's always asking me, 'Why?' He's at the 'Why?' stage."

Johnson said on his website jackjohnsonmusic.com that Sleep Through the Static "has a nice cinematic ride through the whole thing." The keen environmentalist recorded part of the album in his Solar-Powered Plastic Plant studio directly to tape, forgoing the modern-day comforts of computer edits. The eco-friendly studio is carbon neutral and runs entirely on power generated from the sun. It was the first time he'd recorded outside his native Hawaii.