Border Crossing

Fade up on the scene
 As he wakes up from the dream
 In the between place
 Not awake, not asleep
 Such a waste. His sunken face
 Frozen in a scream
 Hypnotized by the click, click, click
 of poker chips on the TV.
 Falling
 All-In
 The dealer reveals a card
 Reach for the remote
 But he's so far gone.
 Just give up and leave it on,
 Voices speak to him in tongues,
 Noises bleeding into one,
 Rain beating like a drum.
 Can't shake the awful feeling;
 They're feeding on his blood!
 Can't get up
 Can't get out
 Too much doubt to overcome
 Too much lost, shut the door, cut em off.
 No cure but to batten down the hatches,
 But when the night falls
 There's a storm in the mattress
 The ship gets tossed
 In the wind and the water
 No map, no captain,
 No course, no order,
 No path towards morning
 Or witness to the end,
 Another victim of life,
 A prisoner in this bed
 Caught up at the border of the living and the dead!
 Caught up at the border of the living and the dead!
 Caught up at the border of the living and the dead!
 Can't get to sleep so the dream never ends!
 Caught up at the border of the living and the dead!
 That's deep. How deep? It's deeper than Atlantis The tide drops before the surge
 Bonded in his words
 Everything is terrible
 Unsettled
 The earth trembles
 Splinters into fragments
 Missing and imbalanced
 Secrets of the deep
 Make him rage against the sheets
 Used to think it would be beautiful to never rest in
 peace
 But God is an insomniac who never gets to
 sleep
 Another victim of addiction to scripted
 reality.
 There's no Survivors in the Real World,
 just Greed and Jeapordy
 Re-occuring dreams of murder scenes and skirting the police
 He did the dirty deed, surely destined to be
 Hung by the Jury the verdict is reached
 The sentence is set
 No mercy, no pardon
 No appeal, no rest
 No escape from the collection of his unforgiven debt
 No stay of execution from the judges in his head
 Keeps looking at the time
 But the night never ends
 When you're caught up at the border of the living and the dead.
 Caught up at the border of the living and the dead!
 Caught up at the border of the living and the dead!
 Can't get to sleep so the dream never ends!
 Caught up at the border of the living and the dead!
 That's deep. How deep? It's deeper than Atlantis