Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
i've got some issues we just can’t grasp
you’ve got me climbing higher but I’m falling fast.
tomorrow’s a better day, but you know it won’t last..
the ghosts are still lingering, the passed from your past.
but i love you dearly, i swear you’re the one
that my heart cries out for like a loaded gun
though you won’t stay, the battle i have not won
a battle for you with your darkest demon.
i’ll stay here ‘til dawn, or ‘til i cease to wake.
whichever comes first, is sure to be mistake.
'cause i lose every time, i can’t have and eat the cake.
i’ve been cheated before, i’ll tatter and break.
but i’ll be here tomorrow
as soon as you call
i'll shoot up like a coke fiend
plastered to the wall
and i won’t run, though i may fall,
into the deep dark abyss that gathers us all.
a shriek i’ll hear as she finds me lye dead
.
no more than a bullet hole, run straight through my head.
they just didn’t listen to the words i thought and said.
i’ll love you forever, the scribbled note read.
i’m sorry for going but i’m just too weak
i promise you now, it’s not happiness i seek.
even freedom, i feel now would be bleak
i’m searching for empty walls, unstitched sheets
now i lay me down to sleep,
i pray the lord my soul to keep.
if i should die before i wake,
i pray the lord my soul to take.
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