Awake Lyrics
Awake Lyrics
For those of us who have nightly terror because our mind continually forces us to relive events that we desperately want to forget when we do fall asleep, there is a voice for your anguish. There is nothing worse than fear of getting the sleep that your body desperately needs. Because you wonder if tonight will be the night that you are once again transported to a time and place that you wish with all that you have had never taken place. That dark place that keeps you on a razors edge when there is nothing but your own thoughts to keep you company. This song is an attempt to describe the feelings associated with that level of internal terror. The kind that is impossible to explain to someone that has never lived it. To hopefully give them a glimpse into what true mental torture feels and sounds like.
When the darkness takes over
People gorge on their dreams
My manic thoughts are balanced on a wire
Reliving old nightmares that I just can’t escape
And they still leave me
Broken and tired
Just let me sleep
Where my own hell survives
And I still see
Visions that terrorize the person inside
I’m awake and I’m here on the edge
Of losing myself
Does anyone know how to ease a tortured mind
While I wait, I’m still awake
As the hourglass sifts its sand away with the night
I’m circling down this void that’s on fire
Do I listen to the unholy voices inside my head
Is that my fate
Or my desire
Just set me free
I’ll never open my eyes
But it’s just a dream is what I tell myself
To simply survive
I’m awake and I’m here on the edge
Of losing myself (losing myself)
Does anyone know how to ease a tortured mind
But while I wait, I’m still awake
