The Sleep Of Reason

The sleep of reason produces monsters so they say
They keep insisting nightly prayers will keep my hell at bay
A trivial list of uselessness to charm my dreams away
The frequency increases, seems to me they're here to stay

Deny the offering, wind through the madness of my mind
Drift into darkness, my consciousness is left behind
Transported in an instant, so lucidly I toe the line
All perceptions, recollections wholly misaligned

Disturbingly unpleasant fever dreams
Rehashing scenes of horror ridden screams
Twisting morbid visions won't relent
Forced to reenact all life's regrets

Hallucinations of epic proportions I am forsaken
They repeat nocturnally, I can't awaken
Retrace the countless stumbled footsteps that I've taken
Each door I break in wrong, each face exaggerated

So taken back, I'm overwhelmed forced to look into myself
What's left of me a tragedy, an open book thrown off the shelf
Ripped open wide torn up inside my thoughts become the lines
The words and phrases drip off the pages right through my fucking grasp

Disturbingly unpleasant fever dreams
Rehashing scenes of horror ridden screams
Twisting morbid visions won't relent
Forced to reenact all life's regrets

I'm fading fast
I don't know how long I can last

I don't know how long I can last, I'm fading fast
The present and the future fusing with the past
I become the alpha and omega, the first and very last
This mortal vessel cast aside the human shell surpassed

Devoid of feeling I'm stripped of all humanity
No intervention just simply nothing left to be
Then in my absence assumptions spiral rapidly
When someone finally finds me, they'll say I died in my sleep