Intro (mumbled / distant)
They keep saying I’m safe here…
…but nothing in this place feels quiet
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Hook
Don’t let me sleep, it gets louder at night
Walls start breathing, they move when I blink
They say I’m fine, but they tighten the straps
Every time I say what I think
Don’t let me sleep, I can feel something shift
Like I’m not in control of my skin
If I go under, I won’t come back
Something else is waking up in me
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Verse 1
Fluorescent lights buzz over my head
Counting the cracks in the paint instead
Clock on the wall don’t tick the same
I swear it skips when I say my name
Nurse walks in but her face looks wrong
Like it stretched when she leaned too long
She says “relax,” but her voice don’t match
Like two things speaking out her throat at once
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Pre-Chorus
They write things down when I start to shake
But they don’t hear the sounds I hear
They say it’s “just in your head” again
But it’s getting closer to the surface here
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Hook
Don’t let me sleep, it gets louder at night
Walls start breathing, they move when I blink
They say I’m fine, but they tighten the straps
Every time I say what I think
Don’t let me sleep, I can feel something shift
Like I’m not in control of my skin
If I go under, I won’t come back
Something else is waking up in me
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Verse 2
Hands strapped down but I feel them move
Like they’re not mine when I look too soon
Fingers twitch in a different way
Like they’re learning how to disobey
There’s a voice that repeats my thoughts
Before I even get to speak
And it laughs when I try to stop
Like it knows what I’m gonna be
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Bridge (whisper / fractured)
Room 12… Room 12…
They don’t open that door themselves
Room 12… stay awake…
It gets worse if you medicate
Don’t drink that—
Don’t close your—
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Final Hook (distorted / breaking)
Don’t let me sleep—I’m not alone inside
I can feel it pressing through my spine
They say “it’s just a phase of the mind”
But it’s learning how to speak through mine
Don’t let me sleep—if I fade, I’m gone
You’ll be talking to something else
And it’ll smile when you call my name…
…but I won’t be there at all
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