Sleepless

"Sleepless" (Metal Version) (Verse 1 — low, grinding) The clock gnaws the wall, I starve my rest for the ceiling's pale call. Sunset bled out through the glass, left the moonlight to carve its last pass. (Pre-Chorus — building) No dawn. No dawn. No dawn. I drown in the hours I can't hold on. (Chorus — screamed / shouted) I'M THE SLEEPLESS! I'M THE STILL! I'M THE HOLE THE NIGHT WON'T FILL! The dark keeps its count, the stars keep their light, and I bleed through the hours I can't hold tight! (Verse 2 — galloping) Two corpses in the hall, the dusk and the dawn — they don't call. I'm the moth to a moon that won't warm, a wound that the pillow can't calm. I swallow the dark, I chew on the night, the ceiling's the only thing keeping me right. (Chorus) I'M THE SLEEPLESS! I'M THE STILL! I'M THE HOLE THE NIGHT WON'T FILL! The dark owes me nothing, it never was mine, just a candle that burns from the inside! (Bridge — half-time, doom) Between the sunset and the moon… there's a seam where the world's undone. I live in the seam, where the hours don't mean… where the light goes to die, and the night learns to scream. (Outro — clean, whispered, then one final blast beat) The pass of the night… the sleepless I am… two rivers that meet… where the moonlight will save. (…silence. Then one last chord, let it ring.)