Another sleepless night,

And I don't have to be depressed

To wonder why

My mind is spinning in countless directions

My heart keeping time

The the beat of a faultline

The beat of the same rhyme

It's a picture I've painted, all in my head

A subconscious letter I write in my bed

It's a dream, an ambition, a hopeless ideal

It's a shift in my vision, a crack on my windshield

God, help me

Another sleepless night

I'm desperately watching out for a first light

The thoughts in my head are running all too dry

Why, why, why, why

Me?

I could be dying, dying like the front yard tree

We keep it there because it represents a certain memory

A person that died left a tree as a legacy

And now remembrance is dying like the sanity in me

Oh, please

Another sleepless night

Counting seconds till I hear someone in the kitchen

Making breakfast again

Like they did yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that,

And before I know it a picture's in the past

All it takes is 24 hours for a moment to be frozen in memory. 

All it takes is 1 minute for a thought to elongate for an eternity. 

All it takes is a second to die

And a second to fall asleep--