Plastic Sleep

Temporary tattoo artist, Groundhog's Day naysayer
Non-returners of calls until about a day later
Off-kilter, off-set, caught in the fog freighter
Running off-course with a cargo of prayers

Same alarm, different day, same fall down the stairs
Same position, arms spread, same cause for the craters
Same condition without the existence of a blonde head
Anxiety-stricken thoughts supposedly left for dead

Woken up again by the same complex
Better to get to calling that provider of small meds
When the feelings aren't right, he's the go-to best
At patching the hull and beefing up defense

The goal to obtain a straight and narrow keel vector
Needing a quick fix, not some water wheeled lecture
Staying afloat, placing trust in a mentor
Prescribing pseudo-feelings of real pleasure

The Monoamine Oxidates lift current states
Curbing bad moods for good measure
Knowing when's too much to take from stomach aches
Loss of weight and increases in blood pressure

Selective Serotonin re-uptake inhibitors
Reinvigorate, making great listeners
Not knowing how much to take is exactly how money's made
By pharmaceutical company investors

It goes, one, two, thirty milligrams of Celexa
Four, five, sixty more of Effexor
Counting plastic sheep until nighty-night from Trazadone
How could we get a full night's sleep without having those?

Melatonin gives the worst nightmares
Claustrophobic, loss of focus, blind stares
Naturopathic paths have negative sides too
At the break of dawn comes the night terrors

Sleep is never really sleep REM-wise
Despite Ambien and Remeron taken every time
Waking's a chore for a slow, sedated mind
Facing the floor with capillary blazing eyes

The scariest experience, wide awake and furious
Sweat drenched, un-slept, brain caked with delirium
Upset from unrest unless attempts are made
To book an hour with a so-called, therapist

This inner-changed proves a new and improved catalog
Once behooved to drop two blue Adderall
Side effects clash like new shoes
Competitive moods glued to a friendly game of racquetball

Wow, this is all so great and gravy
For the immediate moment, despair is unfurled
More elated than lazy lately
Going straight from feeling something awful to top of the world

Forget about insides degrading
Laser beam speed's what we demand and it's damn quicker
Patching neurotransmitters
Than reinstating solid states, regulating transistors

It goes, one, two, thirty milligrams of Celexa
Four, five, sixty more of Effexor
Counting plastic sheep until nighty-night from Trazadone
How could we get a full night's sleep without having those?

It goes, one, two, thirty milligrams of Celexa
Four, five, sixty more of Effexor
Counting plastic sheep until nighty-night from Trazadone
How could we get a full night's sleep without having those?

It goes, one, two, thirty milligrams of Celexa
Four, five, sixty more of Effexor
Counting plastic sheep until nighty-night from Trazadone
How could we get a full night's sleep without having those?
Counting plastic sheep until nighty-night from Trazadone
How could we get a full night's sleep without having those?