Sleep Deprived

ls this what it's like to be institutionalised? Sleep your full eight and wake up tired Shaved for burial and sleep deprived Nystagmic flutters in dreams tethered ties Repeat after me. we're all doing fine They've always got a name for our kind They've always got a pill to make us right With the side effects that keep us half alive Aptly prescribed to keep us paralysed Learn your lines before our dogmas collide We're itemised, prioritised So my sleepwalking can be synchronised And we close the door on our endless nights This is failure to comply Yet the flaws in me they still abide They sound like empty wishes, at least they're mine But the trumpets won't sound because it's all a lie Fields of dystopian loss in our eyes There's nothing left to feed the combines Find me in silence ill-advised Gorging on chemicals and unsatisfied Live out the days like we're waiting to die Would you see, me if I burned the skies? Swallowing stars under a web of wire