It's times like these I cannot sleep
I've counted countless flocks of sheep
For something from my nightmare creeps
From the darkness and into the day
There's a pale light in the back of my brain
Someone left on out of fear, out of pain
And as I lay here awake the color will drain
Out of my wide open eyes
I don't understand, I can honestly say,
What keeps me awake through the night, through the day
But whatever it is, not a man will be spared
So I can't fall asleep for I am far too scared.
Maybe it's time that I document my thoughts
But my thoughts have been eaten by a stomach in knots
Cast away on the ocean, left open to rot
Like my heart and my soul and my mind
And I swear my head isn't shouting at me
The voice comes instead from the vile churning sea
So diary you're pointless, you always will be
I need not write any more poems
And I don't understand, I can honestly say
What snatches my dreams and keeps me this way
But whatever it is I can't handle it's stare
So I can't fall asleep for I am far too scared.
My eyes have grown tired, my body grown weak
But sleep still escapes me, it carefully sneaks
Past my bed every night where I let out my shrieks
Because bad dreams are better than none
And this terrible tango of dark and of light
This terrible battle against fear that I fight
Will end only at the end of the night
When the cruel sun takes it's place
And I don't understand, I can honestly say
What terror awaits and for what sins I'll pay
When the creature does find me and I'm no longer spared
So I can't fall asleep, for I am far too scared.
