"I can hear you sighin', sayin' you'll stay beside me. Why must it be that you always creep into my dreams?" The song opens not on the love itself but on the fear that follows it. Stevie Wonder wrote a ballad about a man who cannot believe his luck. He did not go looking. He was not ready. Love found him anyway and now he spends every moment waiting for it to disappear. The word "creepin'" is not an accusation. It is the slow death of trust, something dying by inches before you ever speak about it out loud. She promises to stay. He hears the sigh before the sentence finishes. The song knows that the worst betrayals arrive without announcement.

Stevie Wonder recorded it first in 1974 on Fulfillingness First Finale, where the track arrived as a quiet album cut on a Grammy-winning record.