The Dream Eater

[Verse 1]

She's been walking for hours on end

with the sun beating down on her head,

and the road only bends and then bends

where the shadows run somewhere ahead.

And the mountains that rise from the track

aren't mountains of stone or of sand;

they're plastic, and zippered, and black,

and each one's the size of a man.

[Chorus]

There's no end to the walls of this maze,

and there isn't a hand or a friend,

and she walks with the weight of a gaze

that is waiting for her at the end.

[Verse 2]

When she turns to the right, there are more,

and they're stacked till they block out the light;

they fill every gap, every door,

and the left is the same as the right.

And her legs have been burning for miles

as the day overhead starts to fade,

and she climbs, and she crawls through the piles,

and she doesn't look down where they're laid.

[Chorus]

There's no end to the walls of this maze,

and there isn't a hand or a friend,

and she walks with the weight of a gaze

that is waiting for her at the end.

[Verse 3]

Then she catches her foot on a seam

of a bag with the zipper undone,

and she falls, and she can't even scream

as it swallows the last of the sun.

There is something that waits in the black,

made of bullets and shrapnel and knives,

and it never says anything back,

and it's eaten a million lives.

[Bridge]

Then the fingers of metal reach in,

and they pull the zip up to her chin,

and the sound that it makes is so small,

and the light goes away, and that's all.

[Chorus]

There's no end to the walls of this maze,

and there isn't a hand or a friend,

and she walks with the weight of a gaze

that is waiting for her at the end.

[Outro]

In the dark she can't breathe, she can't see,

and her breath starts to shake, and it breaks,

so she claws at the zip to get free,

and she's up, and she's wide, wide awake.

And the zipper that's under her chin

is a sleeping bag's zip, nothing more,

and the dark is the dark she's been in

every night on the cold cellar floor.