helpless in a dream

[2006]

mellowed out, i'm hollow now.
i've left sedition in my wake.
can you help me from this tree
i seem to have made a mistake
this is not my kind of dream.
this can't be reality.
i'm near the edge as i start to fall
with nothing to hold me back at all

and i've been helpless in a dream
and soon i'll be a casualty.
my screams erased by zero sound
waiting to hit the ground.

chasing footsteps close behind
across the wasteland of the mind
my voice, mosquito droning sighs
for the waking mind to analyze.
this is not my kind of dream.
this can't be reality.
leather gloves to creep around
my neck as i start to plummet down

encased in glass, indigo light
as they gather to watch tv tonight
this blank blue vision to paralyze
their avid starving murderous eyes.
this is not my type of crowd.
the silence blaring far too loud
to break the glass. to trod the hall.
to grab my ankles when i fall

and i've been helpless in a dream
and soon i'll be a casualty.
i hope i wake. i've got to try.
regain my vision before i die.
my screams erased by zero sound
waiting to hit the ground.