[ti:.] [ar:.] [al:.] [00:00.00] [00:16.12]In a nightmare, I am falling [00:19.41]From the ceiling into bed beside you [00:23.47]You're asleep, I'm screaming [00:25.46]Shoving you to try to wake you up [00:29.49]And like before, you've got no interest [00:33.08]In the life you live when you're awake [00:36.67]Your dreams still follow storylines [00:40.10]Like fictions you would make [00:42.96]So I lie down against your back [00:46.21]Until we're both back in the hospital [00:50.35]But now it's not a cancer ward [00:53.64]We're sleeping in the morgue [00:56.61]Men and women in blue and white [01:00.06]They are singing all around you [01:03.32]With heavy shovels holding earth [01:06.36]You're being buried to you neck [01:10.25]In that hospital bed [01:13.62]Being buried quite alive now [01:16.72]I'm trying to dig you out [01:18.95]But all you want is to be buried there together [01:23.64]You're screaming, and cursing [01:30.59]And angry, and hurting me [01:37.26]And then smiling, and crying [01:44.04]Apologizing [01:50.75]I've woken up, I'm in our bed [01:53.97]But there's no breathing body there beside me [01:58.12]Someone must have taken you [02:01.11]While I was stuck asleep [02:04.15]But I know better as my eyes adjust [02:07.94]You've been gone for quite awhile now [02:11.01]I don't work there in the hospital [02:14.80]They had to let me go [02:17.80]When I try to move my arms sometimes [02:21.51]They weigh too much to lift [02:24.38]I think you buried me awake [02:27.54]My one and only parting gift [02:31.14]But you return to me at night [02:34.21]Just when I think I may have fallen asleep [02:38.41]Your face is up against mine [02:41.28]And I'm too terrified to speak [02:44.91]You're screaming, and cursing [02:51.62]And angry, and hurting me [02:58.25]And then smiling, and crying [03:04.92]Apologizing [03:11.84]You're screaming, and cursing [03:18.49]And angry, and hurting me [03:25.23]And then smiling, and crying [03:31.84]Apologizing [03:38.77]You're screaming, and cursing [03:45.44]And angry, and hurting me [03:52.11]And then smiling, and crying [03:58.92]Apologizing [04:06.48]