dark hour

(album: SHUT UP, GET HAPPY - 2022)

I can't relax at all these days
I haven't for the longest time
I manage it but where's the line?
Where I'm dying?
I'm... Paused
Suspended like an apparition
Without a "moving on" condition
I'm sick of all the lies, suspicion I won't find the piece I've been missing so
Don't. Run. Away with me
I'm a lost, cause, paid to be
Toss the soft act behavior
Reach for more
Time
Has never really been on my side
No heaven for the sins of my pride
In just another moment
The dark hour beckons
And that's where I'll hide

Somewhere
Beyond the darkness
A song in the night as the light rays part, it's
Been another hazy, lazy sobering day
So bring a lover in the form of a shadow play
If only walls could talk, check the clock, 2 now 3
I fall into a coma called reality
Defiance, my eyelids refuse to close
Unless a dream plays a song out of tune, suppose it goes

Dark hour lullaby
All five of my senses, unalive
Snuff out our light
Just the one and only lonely mine
Wanna be under wonder's spell
Lost in a diamond crusted realm
Inside of a jewelery box mind
I wanna spend some time

While looking straight into those eyes
Can never really seem to read you
I'd black out for a chance to breath you
And I tried
I'm stopped
Impervious to soreness, thankless
A servant to the bored and anxious
And you're my blanket

My brain is a puzzle, thinking why am I like that?
But fame is a muzzle, and I cannot fight back
I'll strike a little match to watch the flame flicker
And pray that my rise finally dies, or ends quicker
A gun to my chest, but it's not for me
Trigger finger toward mess I made mentally
I take a shot, put the glass down, descend in a dream
Where every minute of my time ain't behind a screen
Repeat

Dark hour lullaby
All five of my senses, unalive
Snuff out our light
Just the one and only lonely mine
Wanna be under wonder's spell
Lost in a diamond crusted realm
Inside of a jewelery box mind
I wanna spend some time

Somewhere
Beyond the darkness
A song in the night as the light rays part, it's
Somewhere
Behind the shadows
A melody that ruptured beneath a sad glow
Somewhere
The crazed and heartless
Oblivious that they are not the ones that start this
The chivalrous become insidious and even hideous then pitiful, ridiculed
When I never took it serious

Somehow
The world is turning
The moon stays alight and the sun still burning
Somehow
We're stuck at 3:00
Alone for a night that can last eternity
Somehow
The here and now
Is begging for a me that I can't allow
But this soul
And this sound
Is everlasting my world's the last thing on my mind

Dark hour lullaby
All five of my senses, unalive
Snuff out our light
Just the one and only lonely mine
Wanna be under wonder's spell
Lost in a diamond crusted realm
Inside of a jewelery box mind
I wanna spend some time