Eight Hours Gone

Intro

Eight hours done

Eight hours gone

Mm

Verse 1

Punch the clock at the hardware store

My shoulders ache my knuckles sore

I dealt with customers who scream and curse

For thirteen dollars an hour it could be worse

I drag myself up the apartment stairs

Just want my pillow and my broken chair

Pre-Chorus

But the door swings open slow

And there she stands

Waiting by the frame again

Waiting with her hands

Chorus

Why you standing at the door

Why you waiting up for me

I am running on empty

Let me sleep let me be

Why you standing at the door

Every single night the same

I just want my quiet room

I don't want to play this game

Verse 2

She got a belt in her fist like a coiled-up snake

I'm a grown man cowering for goodness sake

She asks about my weekend asks about the con

Where I go to breathe where I go to belong

Anime posters on my wall

She don't get it she don't get it at all

Pre-Chorus

And the questions never stop

Facebook who is that

Messaging at midnight

While I'm flat on my back

Chorus

Why you standing at the door

Why you waiting up for me

I am running on empty

Let me sleep let me be

Why you standing at the door

Every single night the same

I just want my quiet room

I don't want to play this game

Post-Chorus

Na na na na

Let me sleep

Na na na na

Let me sleep

Bridge

Breakfast on the table rice and dried fish

Eggs going cold while I'm in another world

Warcraft loading on the screen

She don't see the boy she just sees the meal

Her fury is a furnace

Her fury is a tide

I turn my face into the pillow

And I let the tears collide

Breakdown

Cried myself to sleep

Cried myself to sleep

Cried myself to sleep again

Chorus

Why you standing at the door

Why you waiting up for me

I am running on empty

Let me sleep let me be

Why you standing at the door

Every single night the same

I just want my quiet room

I don't want to play this game

Outro

Eight hours done

Eight hours gone

Mm

Let me sleep