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Insomniac

from Almost September by Chris Peters

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I keep having this dream
And I know I go
But I gotta see my old home
I gotta go home

I keep checking the time
And I know I know
That I gotta see my old home
I gotta go home

Cause the walls are blue like the morning sky
And there’s a notch on my banister
Fifty feet high
And there’s a hundred million things
I need to know

But the road’s too icy and the highway’s too far
And a blonde-haired man stole the key to the car
And I wake up long before I ever go

So get some sleep she said
But I get to bed
And I stare at the ceiling
And through my worried mind
I look behind
And I get the feeling
I’m wasting my time

You know it’s no good to act tough
Insomniac never gets enough

Well I went to the doctor and she said
“You know, I’m not sure what you wanna hear
But you know there’s always pills, son
No shame in pills”

There’s a trial size vial on the nightstand
And I’ve almost tried some three times now
And if I can’t sleep tonight I think I will

Cause I could wake up tomorrow
With the world at the door
Get rid of uncertainties and know them for sure
And find chaos in the order of
The things I used to know

Or I could fall to a fever of a hundred and three
And see how things ain’t the way they should be
And become the token robot
From a science fiction show

And cars on the interstate a mile away
They hum and then they’re gone
And the smoke alarm blinks on
and off
and on
and off
and on

If I keep having this dream
I’ll have to let go
I might never see my old home
I might never go home

But if I wake up tomorrow then at least I’m alive
Cause you only wake up from sleeping
I think I’m starting to find that there’s a limit
To how crazy I can go

And if I ever let go of that childhood home
When I get there I’ll know this place is my own
And not the latent shadow of a place
I didn’t really ever know

So get some sleep she said
But I get to bed
And I stare at the ceiling
And through my worried mind
I look behind
And I get the feeling
It’s all in good time

You know it’s no good to act tough
Insomniac never gets enough

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from Almost September, released August 1, 2012
Drums: Owen Evans

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