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the midnight man

Let me tell you a story
About a time not too long ago
That I met a man
Of a name you might know

He was called the midnight man
And had a painted smile
He lived in my brain
And had thoughts that were vile

With every step
And every thought
He would pull me in further
To the life most had forgot

He told me once
If I kept my eyes closed
I'd be one blink closer
To my nighttime doze

In the daylight he slept
In the midnight he flourished
Running in dreamland
Keeping my mind nourished

He was a good friend
But demons slept in his head
And when I would enter slumber
They would enter my mind instead

I would awake in fear
Haunted my night terrors
And he would remind me
That every burden needs a bearer

And in daylight I was depressed
During the night I was dead
And it didn't take long
Till I put a bullet in my head.