In this dreamy ballad, SZA cherishes every moment with her romantic partner. She yearns for his love and affection and wants to be his top priority, despite their ups and downs. I can't lose when I'm with you How can I snooze and miss the moment? You just too important SZA doesn't want to fall asleep and waste the precious moments she has with her love interest.

SZA recorded "Snooze" for her second album, SOS. The album is chock-full of movie references – she even titled one song after a Quentin Tarantino film. In the second verse, she mentions the Cadillac convertible and the titular character's love interest in Scarface. In a droptop ride with you, I feel like Scarface Like that white bitch with the bob, I'll be your main one SZA wants to drive around with her guy feeling like Scarface's partner, Elvira Hancock.

SZA wrote "Snooze" with R&B legend Babyface, along with Khristopher Riddick-Tynes and Leon Thomas III of the production duo The Rascals. When SZA arrived at the session to work on a different song, she saw The Rascals making the beat for "Snooze" in the hallway. "Leon's voice is a sample in the beat," she told Wild 94.9's Angelina. "That's his ways in being part of the beat and when I heard just that vocal-like sample, I love samples like that." As examples, SZA cited the vocal sample of River Tiber's 2016 single "West" on her CTRL track "Broken Clocks," and the vocal sample of Gabriel Hardeman Delegation's 1976 song "Until I Found the Lord (My Soul Couldn't Rest)" on "SOS." "I'm like a fiend for that," SZA continued, "so I was like what is that and um I just kind of wandered into the room like someone following their nose and um , yeah he was building this beat from scratch and I was like this is crazy and then Babyface came in and added a bunch of stuff or melodies with a guitar and they were producing together and then I took it back and then I sent it to them and that was that."