Barely Sleeping
Hypercaffenating
The drudgery of the day drags me down
As I lay down to sleep
And drift off to nightly nightmares
Chased by demons on horseback
I just want my life back

Under my eyes
Is the pain of a thousand million nights
Spent dreaming of you
In my heart
Vengeance beats like a war drum
That doesn’t know which flag it’s loyal to

The schism of sleep
Keeps me awake
Just enough for my sanity to quake
Keeps me awake
But you know you can’t replace
Can’t replace me
With anyone else

I wake five minutes before R.E.M. Sleep ends
Like a handjob that just edges
I wake in the middle of the night
Haunted by the ghosts that sing my name
Hunted by myths and magic
I know
I am a soldier of sleep
I am a soldier of sleep
And I’m dying to eat just one night that’s complete