Awake Too Long

Old echos of funny things you used to say

One more time, tell me how it went this way

I’ll be good if it means I won’t erase

Long way down, falling through the window frame

I haven’t since I was a little girl, try it on

You want me to un-see the world but I can’t

The dream is lost we’ve been awake too long

With no machine to calibrate, we’re gone

I’ll be brave, hide behind a cropped clipped face

Here to die, aren’t we all the dreaming kind

No progress but I’ve been trying all this time

Bleak dumb brain, give me something new to crave

I haven’t since I was a little girl, try it on

You want me to un-see the world but I can’t

The dream is lost we’ve been awake too long

With no machine to calibrate, we’re gone