SLEEPLESS FUNERAL (Fatal Familial Insomnia)

\[INTRO – count-in, feedback]

No REM / no rest / thalamus embers

Prayer beads of hours / slipping through tremors

\[VERSE]

Prion rosary, folding wrong in my head

White-noise angels / sandpaper bed

Microsleeps shatter like glass in the vein

Every blink a lie / every night the same

\[Break]

Autonomic storm—skin floods, heart hammers

Tongue like ash, breath like hammers

Shadows crawl / pupils flare

Clock bleeds numbers / vacant stare

\[CHORUS]

Sleepless funeral, wake without end

Nails on the pillow, grief without friends

DREAMLESS • RESTLESS • DEATHLESS—AMEN

I can’t lay down—so bury me standing

\[VERSE 2]

Sheets like bandages, can’t keep me closed

Crown of wakefulness, thorns of doze

Thalamus starving, sirens inside

Family curse—I’m next in the line

\[BREAKDOWN]

NO DREAMS / NO MERCY / NO DAWN

PRAYER FOR A BRAIN THAT FORGOT HOW TO YAWN

RING THE EYES / RING THE BELL

EVERY NIGHT A DIFFERENT HELL

\[CHORUS – shorter, harder]

Sleepless funeral, coffin of light

DREAMLESS • RESTLESS • DEATHLESS—TONIGHT

\[OUTRO – choking whispers]

TV glow / eyelids rust

I forgot how to dream—turn me to dust.