Verse 1
Eyes burning red from counting time,
Ceilings cracking, losing lines.
Coffee cups and shaking hands,
Trying not to drift where I can’t stand.
Every sound feels amplified,
Reality is paper-thin tonight.
I hear a laugh behind the wall,
Soft at first — then not at all.
Pre-Chorus
If I sleep, I lose control,
If I wake, I lose my soul.
Every minute pulls me down,
To the edge where dreams are crowned.
Chorus
I stay wide awake, but I’m not safe,
He’s patient — he can wait.
Between the seconds, in the gray,
He’s calling me by name.
I stay wide awake, lights never fade,
But fear don’t need the dark.
He’s closer every breath I take,
I feel him in my heart.
Verse 2
Mirrors show a different me,
Someone tired, someone weak.
Every blink’s a loaded gun,
Every night I almost run.
Pills dissolve but don’t erase,
The burning smile, the scarred face.
Dreams are leaking through the seams,
I’m awake — but still I dream.
Pre-Chorus
I hear the rhyme, I know the rule,
Sleep’s the cruelest kind of fool.
When my body shuts me down,
That’s the moment he comes around.
Chorus
I stay wide awake, but I’m not safe,
He’s patient — he can wait.
Between the seconds, in the gray,
He’s calling me by name.
I stay wide awake, lights never fade,
But fear don’t need the dark.
He’s closer every breath I take,
I feel him in my heart.
Bridge
Maybe monsters never die,
They just learn where fear survives.
Not in dreams, not in the night,
But in the fight to stay alive.
Final Chorus
I stay wide awake, my eyes bleed dry,
Chasing dawn that never arrives.
If I sleep, I’m already lost,
If I wake, I pay the cost.
Wide awake — but here he stands,
Inside my thoughts, inside my hands.
Wide awake… it’s true to say:
You don’t need sleep to drift away.
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