I Need to Sleep

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Sleep
I can't sleep
No matter how many sheep
I count down until I reap
I'm in too deep
I need to sleep
Go to sleep
Go to sleep

Mentally
I'm tired
Physically
I'm on fire
Oh please oh let me just retire
At least before I get fired
From waking days
From raking tires
I'm just too tired
My head should be rewired

I need to sleep
I'm going insane
God let me sleep
It's getting mundane
Now it's Monday
After Sunday
Which I did not sleep between
I was demoted from queen
Of dreams which I used to beg
And plead to seg-
-regate my days
From each other
My nights from the unbothered

I need to sleep
Go to sleep
Go to sleep

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