**VERSE 1 (cleans)**
The couch remembers my shape,
Indentations like graves in cheap upholstery.
The TV plays to no one,
Static laughter bleeding into my bones.
I hate my bedroom — it knows too much,
It whispers about all the nights I failed to sleep.
So I rot here, a quiet monument,
To someone I don’t remember wanting to be.
**CHORUS (ALL CAPS screams)**
MELATONIN — TAKE ME OUT AGAIN,
PUT ME UNDER, I DON’T WANT TO THINK.
PULL THE CURTAINS, BLACK OUT THE DAY,
I’LL DREAM UNTIL MY BONES DECAY.
MELATONIN — KEEP ME WHERE IT’S WARM,
A COLD CATHEDRAL IN A FESTERING STORM.
DON’T LET THE SUNLIGHT FIND MY FACE,
LET ME ROT IN THIS SAFEPLACE.
**VERSE 2 (cleans)**
When I wake, I drink,
And the edges blur before they can cut me.
There’s comfort in a glass,
A slow erasure, sip by sip.
The silence of the house is too loud,
So I drown it in YouTube voices I’ll never meet.
My insomnia was a gift I gave myself,
So I could feel nothing for days at a time.
**BRIDGE (cleans → screams)**
Dreams are where the world makes sense,
BUT THE ALARM CLOCK ALWAYS WINS.
I freeze myself in that perfect stillness,
AND MELT INTO MY OWN FILTH AGAIN.
**CHORUS (ALL CAPS screams)**
MELATONIN — TAKE ME OUT AGAIN,
PUT ME UNDER, I DON’T WANT TO THINK.
PULL THE CURTAINS, BLACK OUT THE DAY,
I’LL DREAM UNTIL MY BONES DECAY.
MELATONIN — KEEP ME WHERE IT’S WARM,
A COLD CATHEDRAL IN A FESTERING STORM.
DON’T LET THE SUNLIGHT FIND MY FACE,
LET ME ROT IN THIS SAFEPLACE.
**OUTRO (cleans, fading)**
The couch swallows my weight,
The glow of the screen is my nightlight.
I breathe in the dust and call it air,
Waiting for sleep to take me…
And never let me go.