(Chorus)
Up 'til sunrise like I stalk the dawn.
(Repeat X4)
(Verse 1)
I can lie in silence for like nine hours and I get nothin.
Sight is lined with the hinds of my eyelids, but, man, I'm still up. It's
a curse for me. Nursery rhymes wouldn't work for me.
Insomnia's not just a word for me
Does my mind just like the rise of sun
enough to fight my eyes when shut?
'cause I can just
see fireworks.
My nerves suddenly wire up.
I'm sick and tired of
what I'm sick and tired from.
A lack of sleep
is actually
a battle between
me and my mind, but
I am my mind. Umm..
(Chorus)
Up 'til sunrise like I stalk the dawn.
(Repeat X4)
(Verse 2)
I stalk the dawn,
sit with binoculars,
across the lawn,
waiting for the risin' sun
to kill the dark
so I can summon
sleep 'cause see, for me,
it's not an easy thing
to sleep and dream.
In the night, it's vivid, bright.
I'd sit and write,
but, now, my mind has writer's block.
Can't fight the clock.
You're kiddin' right?
No friend in night.
My night's in shining armor
just to flash my eyelids reddish.
One must wonder if this restlessness
will keep me up when death hits.
An eternal insomniac; I'm
Earth's unwilling tenant.
(Chorus)
Up 'til sunrise like I stalk the dawn.
(Repeat X4)
(Verse 3)
Full of scary thoughts,
I'm staring off
to space;
my face is weary. God,
I'm still not asleep.
My mind just likes to day dream,
or night dream while awake.
My soul you take,
before day's breaking.
That's how I pray for sleep,
or death. My soul you take for keeps.
Can't die before I wake
if sleep won't come. I'm forced to lay..
I lay me down to sleep,
but sleep won't come.
I count the sheep.
Okay, a thousand. Please,
just grant me, now, eight hour's peace
..somewhere I'm out of reach
with no loud noise,
so sound's asleep.
(Chorus)
Up 'til sunrise like I stalk the dawn.
(Repeat X5)
credits
from They Don't Listen To The Words LP,
released February 20, 2015
Swetz as the voice on the voicemail.
Konscience as vocalist, writer, and producer.
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