Don’t Wake Me Up

(slow, heavy, almost hypnotic; bass hums, drum echoes, distorted melodic guitar)

(Verse 1)

I feel you slipping in the quiet room,

Shadows stretching, swallowing the gloom.

Your laughter fades like a record scratch,

I reach for you but the line won’t attach.

I pretend the world is still aligned,

Replay the moments I left behind.

Every word you said, I keep in chains,

Every silence I carve into my veins.

(Pre-Chorus)

Don’t wake me up from this half-light dream,

I need your ghost more than I need the scene.

(Chorus)

Don’t wake me up, let me stay,

In the version where you never walked away.

I’ll live in the loop, in the static, in the hum,

Where every moment is still to come.

(Verse 2)

The sun burns wrong, the nights are thin,

I hear your voice under my skin.

I trace your steps across the floor,

Replay the door you walked out of once before.

I tell myself it’s not too late,

That you might turn back through the gate.

Reality frays at the seams,

But I can’t let go of these broken dreams.

(Chorus 2 — louder, more distorted)

Don’t wake me up, don’t break the spell,

I live in the echo where we fell.

If you never left, if this could stay,

I’d keep your shadow from drifting away.

(Bridge — whispered, feedback hum)

Come back…

Come back…

Even if it’s only in my head.

(Outro — distorted tape rewind, faint echo of laughter)

Don’t wake me up…

I’ll wait…