I sleep with one eye open

Intro

Yeah

Mm-hmm

Brick by brick

Cold comes crawling

Verse 1

Six flights up the stairwell stinks of rust and rain

I count the doors that never open

Somebody's dog won't quit its howling

The hallway bulb is dying slow

My shadow walks ahead of me

It knows the way I'm going better than I do

Pre-Chorus

Nails in the boards

Names in the plaster

Nothing in this building forgives

Chorus

I sleep with one eye open

One eye open

Every creak's a visitor

Every visitor a threat

I sleep with one eye open

One eye open

I stopped praying years ago

But I still ain't sleeping yet

Verse 2

Cousin went missing in November

They found his coat but not his hands

Auntie keeps his room the way he left it

Dust on the dresser, sheets still turned

I don't do funerals no more

I do corners, I do exits, I do plans

Pre-Chorus

Blood on the banister

Ice in the pipes

Nothing in this building forgives

Chorus

I sleep with one eye open

One eye open

Every creak's a visitor

Every visitor a threat

I sleep with one eye open

One eye open

I stopped praying years ago

But I still ain't sleeping yet

Bridge

Rats run the wiring

Rust runs the pipes

Rain runs the gutters

Fear runs my life

Say it

Fear runs my life

Verse 3

Landlord swears the basement's empty

But the meter spins at 3 a.m.

I hear scratching underneath the concrete

Something counting down below

I don't knock

I don't ask

I just lock the deadbolt twice and let it go

Chorus

I sleep with one eye open

One eye open

Every creak's a visitor

Every visitor a threat

I sleep with one eye open

One eye open

I stopped praying years ago

But I still ain't sleeping yet

Outro

One eye open

One eye open

Still ain't sleeping yet

Still ain't sleeping