Sleep Lyrics

I can't sleep

Chests in the deep encase ghosts in a heap

Deep breaths from my chest feel shallow

I need diaphragm reach

And I can't speak

Words don't come to explain my mind's abduction

And I can't weep

My well has dried up from over consumption

Roll over, re-attack the knot in my back

Old friend on the ceiling whirs in incessant laps

Through the night cheering like a number one fan and

Past and future fight while time drips like sand

Most of y'all think think you're dope, but you muscle for hire

Most of y'all think you're woke but you were never tired

Most of me is done with the entrance fee

I'll get in eventually

If not by master key then by smashing knees

Wisdom from Ecclesiastes to feel at ease or

Push metal through H&K, what you asking me

If I think I can rap, play video games and be fatherly

Yes I expose my passions to my progeny

Violin motifs over every move like Tom and Jerry

Or bada bing swing while I chill in my sanctuary

These kids see it all, they not just sipping dairy

Yeah, we going to be rocking hits till next January

But I can't sleep

Chests in the deep encase ghosts in a heap

Deep breaths from my chest feel shallow

I need diaphragm reach

And I can't speak

Words don't come to explain my mind's abduction

And I can't weep

My well has dried up from over consumption

And I don't go to sleep with my mind on pomp and accolades

I go to sleep and dream of moon beams and sun rays

It's a deeper train of thought that I board

When I travel through time and space

I only disembark when I finally fade

Fade from this place of violent chase

This rat race, this battle space

Who could live in this disgrace, man

Who could kill a man and show face

Commit atrocities and go to a drive through

Buy a coffee the next day

I'm honestly scared of the night hours

That's when my courage cowers

Night terrors wake me like a rifle, high powered

Tears on my cheeks, sweat on the sheets

Sometimes I feel like a freak

I try to hold my future tight but my past leaks

My heart seeks better means to treat my family

Can't put my pain on them, that's insanity

So it's sleeping pills to get to another sunrise

It all washes away when I see my kids' eyes

I can't sleep

Chests in the deep encase ghosts in a heap

Deep breaths from my chest feel shallow

I need diaphragm reach

And I can't speak

Words don't come to explain my mind's abduction

And I can't weep

My well has dried up from over consumption