Lay Me Down To Sleep

Lay Me Down To Sleep

You and I

can’t get much closer.

In spite of what you want.

I’m done explaining-

I’m broke at best.

(Non-existent)

I lay down to sleep

And disappear.

Why is it

you have a question-

for every single thing I do?

Why is it

you say you love me?

Nothing’s ever

good enough for you

"What’s the matter now?"

“Have another one of these…”

“This will take the edge off…”

And I never knew what it would be.

Decisions & decisions to be made.

They’ll tell you what you said

& what you did.

To break from the

futility and monotony.

You speak through comparison,

You speak in tongues.

You listen suspiciously for

gaps in my adaptation.

You have no magic touch.

Please stop trying, its sucking me dry…

And I never seemed to

get it right

It’s like a shadow

hanging over me.

You were the first,

You were the last.

If there’s a god

Release me from my past.

I lay me down to sleep

Condemned to the gallows