Sleeper Hold - So This Is Suffering

Malnourished muscles twitch

Palms itch as I stitch together dollar bills to make things better

A way to remind myself that money won’t last forever

Reaching for the exit & running out of ties to sever

I guess I’ll never learn that some things you can never turn back from

No turning back from this slow burning black abyss

They’ll blast this blasphemy as

You’re keeping count

Of sheep

Still in bed

Dreaming fast asleep

Keep dreaming, dreamer

But quit dreaming you’ll keep her

Where you’re headed

There’s no time for sleep

Your best bet is to wake up & leave her

But what if this is the selling of the soul?

I swear I’m only doing as I was told

Am I somehow doing the Devil’s bidding

By writing words that these kids just aren’t forgetting?

These damn rhymes are damning me

Well, show me a Hell I haven’t seen

If there’s a Heaven, then I hope I can still go there

Anything but getting carsick on roads that lead me to nowhere

So save my mother the worry, tell her I’ll be just fine when I’ll only be

burning