The Noise Inside My Head

It's 3 a.m. and I am laying wide-awake

And I can't sleep for the noise inside my head

The world vibrating with a cruel cacophony

Flooded with the thoughts my mind has bled

The restless furor of a thousand racing thoughts

Swarm around me like a vulture circles prey

In the darkness, no one else can hear a sound

But I am deafened by this ceaseless disarray

I could scream myself to sleep

If it would shatter the illusion

But I can't give in to this

'Cause it's the noise that makes me human

Waking life like a movie on a screen

Running backwards as the film starts to unthread

A wall of violence bounding forward through the peace

With no regard for what might lie ahead

An infestation of arbitrary thought

Washes over me in paralyzing waves

My defenses battered by the driving storm

Isolated, waiting to be saved

I could scream myself to sleep

If it would shatter the illusion

But I can't give in to this

'Cause it's the noise that makes me human

It's much too late, and I am slowly losing ground

A prisoner to the noise inside my head

Disconnected, I am trapped within myself

Held captive by a tide that never ebbs

I could scream myself to sleep

If it would shatter the illusion

But I can't give in to this

'Cause it's the noise that makes me human

I could scream myself to sleep

If it would shatter the illusion

But I can't give in to this

'Cause it's the noise that makes me human