Lyrics:
This morning's so worthy of sleep everlasting
this warning, this journey, this pending disaster
this morning's so worthy of sleep everlasting
dream to fend off mistakes you're still making
These are not my eyes
they're just my hands
please understand
I did not intend this man
This morning's so worthy of sleep everlasting
this groaning, this bleeding, this ending I'm tasked with
this morning's so worthy of sleep everlasting
dream to see someone there's no way to see
I can't see through this smoke
the way it's numbed and slowly choked me
this interstate
did not always look this way
we all made mistakes
that brought us to today
if this industry
has gotten the best of me
then apologies can't help me sleep
this interstate
did not always look so strange
we all lost things along the way
we wish we had with us today
if this industry
has broken what person in the mirror sees
no amends will be quite enough
to become who I could be
and if I chop these parts off one by one
who will I become?
if i leave behind all this pain,
who will feel ashamed?
if i just decide, don't justify
what will i leave behind?
i wore my heart on my sleeve
and gave everything
in support of a leader
who didn't want to lead
owned my mistakes and
i was cut free
i fought the riptide
and it had its way with me
smashed on the rocks
and left to bleed
i let someone choose for me
who didn't want to lead
now ill have to make my peace
(Alternate reality excerpt)
...The Internet did not always work this way
we made some big mistakes
turning a public good over to advertising
they told us themselves way back in '98
when they published Page Rank
that ads would ruin this thing
then it started printing money
a perpetual motion machine...
Credits:
An older version of this song was performed as "Help Me Sleep" by the band relative, with Brian Busenius.
Extra guitar work by Aaron Thompson.
Alternate reality version available by special request;