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Sleeping with my Eyes Open

from Archaic Convent by A Flower in Disguise

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There’s a haunting serenity in your voice
A serenity that makes me torpid
Paralyzed with sensation
Waiting for a reaction you won’t get from me
Sleeping with my eyes open
But urgency pulled me awake
And away from the solace sleep whisked me to
Touching an untouchable place
By the tug of a rope between last night’s embrace
Fear missing a beautiful day where faith might show itself
To a blank, I can’t fill
Knocking a way out

There’s nothing they can do
Aversion stops me from sharing my dreams with you
Riddled by a constant fear
A dread I can’t remove
They ask what they can do
And all I think is leave
There’s nothing they can give me
Nothing they can do

Dressed in reverie
Ephemeral ecstasies
Everything bears me drowning in all I see
Don’t steal these things from me
I can’t describe me
Mine are eyes I can’t meet
Though dressed in reverie
Describe me, please find me

Why’s the devil in the detail?
In every detail
I called my first doll angel
As I lay guarding you
I dig in every tear with my fingers
Buried there in me with no name
No cure just the pain
Reverberating distorted memories
What makes me worthwhile
Creeping solemn this eerie heartbeat

Why’s the devil in the detail?
In every detail?
One with my shadow self
Hm this body a prison
Hapless someday someone will listen
Even angels are terrifying

Sleeping with my eyes open
But urgency pulled me awake
And away from the solace sleep whisked me to
Touching an untouchable place
By the tug of a rope between last night’s embrace
Fear missing a beautiful day where faith might show itself
To a blank, I can’t fill
Knocking a way out

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from Archaic Convent, released July 1, 2020

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