Night Routine / Dystopian Lullaby Lyrics

Half shut eyes

Stumbling on bathroom tiles

Yawning past bedtime

Still up again

Green toothbrush,

Rinse out, spit and hush

Disposition flushed

Down the drain

The soap sliding in my cheeks

Peeling dead skin off my lips

Repeating, depleting, and pleading for guidance

Flossing with the tightrope

Unsteadily hoping

to equilibrate immediacy and defiance

I'm squeezing tasks to fill my days

But then I wish I slept twelve hours straight

The performance quite dramatic,

Though a bit anticlimactic

Always lying down unconscious in the end

I look at the mirror and

I'm seeing the beginning of the fall

String theory in my neck vibrating

Everything I lack and who's at fault

I'm borrowing this moment

From my sleep time and tomorrow

I'm gonna feel like waking up still tired

And a simple self reflection

Escalates into more questions,

On the verge of existential crisis

There's the laundry,

The dishes,

Need to change the sheets.

All these chores

Obstructing

My three year strategy

Lie down, stretch out

For the charger,

Plug it in.

Close my eyes and wait

For an epiphany

But it never comes

Oh, it never comes

I'm left to go to sleep