Insomnia

A poem/lyric

 

Insomnia

 

I can’t think about tomorrow

Until I’m done with today

Got a long way to go

Got to think if I’ll stay

I can’t get this thought from out of my head

I can’t get my life from out of this bed

 

Don’t want to look at another mirror

I’m scared of what I’ll see

And I can’t help but wonder

What’s become of me?

I can’t get this thought from out of my head

I can’t get my life from out of this bed

 

And I can’t eat and I can’t sleep

I can’t wait to fall softly asleep

And I can’t wait and I can’t dream

Knowing everything’s not as it seems

 

I can’t look at you straight in the eye

I’m afraid of what you’ll say

I’m so sick of trying

To live through another day

So just softly slip me another lie

Because I want to believe that you’ll carry me away

 

And when we’re talking

We’re making all the right noises

But its all left unsaid.

We try to do the listening

But forget to hear
Trying to fight around words

Leaving the truth unspoken

 

And you wash over me

And you fight within me

Things beat around me

This insomnia is killing me

Your insomnia is feeding me

 

And I can’t eat and I can’t sleep

I can’t wait to fall into your arms

And I can’t wait and I can’t dream

Knowing everything’s not as it seems

 

As I lie down in our bed

I fear the worst

The day consumes me

As this night it gets worse

And as the same old shadows haunt me

I grow more weary.

And as I close my eyes I know no rest will come

 

And you wash over me

And you fight within me

Things beat around me

This insomnia is killing me

Your insomnia is feeding me

 

And I can’t eat and I can’t sleep

I can’t wait to fall softly asleep

And I can’t wait and I can’t dream

Knowing everything’s not as it seems