Mark Lenover - Let Me Sleep (Wake Me Up)

Track 8 from the 2024 album, "Grieve, Mourn, and Wail"
Now available to stream and download at marklenover.bandcamp.com
Written, recorded, and performed by Mark Lenover
Mastered by David Disher
Lyrics:
I’ve heard the idols and their swaggering lies,
blustering silence and the droning flies
And I’ve seen people disappear into screens
into rabbit-holes and commercial fantasies
A prowling terror bathed in artificial light
invokes its siren daughter
Nocturnal addicts, who mistake the day for night
follow her songs to slaughter...
Let me sleep
Let me sleep
Let me sleep
until the trial is over
I am a junkie in a fortress of glass
more a deserter than a true outcast
I saw my shadow and abandoned my post;
My warning call caught in my parched, sepulchral throat
And now I sit here killing fragments of myself
in an electric mire
while the winds, laden with distant cries for help,
warn of the coming fire
Wake me up
Wake me up
Wake me up
before the trial is over