Substitute - Red Cell

I can’t raise my voice

until I understand

what is under the bottom

what’s in your hand

and my conscious sleep

is awakened away

I am conscious, sleeping

here to stay

I can taste my tear

it’s a shallow drop

what is under the bottom

it’s over the top

and my conscious fear

will never learn

I am conscious, bleeding

will always yearn

I live my life

on the sharpest knife

and the day I fall

I will land my strife

I will always yearn for a future

and in the day it comes

it will be my land

I can’t raise my head

it’s so hard to feed

and this isolation

what do I need

I’m awakened and

I am here to stay

feel a serpent tongue

woke up, on my skin

like a broken tone

that glows within

I will never learn

I will always yearn

I live my life

on the sharpest knife

and the day I fall

I will land my strife

I will always yearn for a future

and in the day it comes

it will be my land