Stay awake

Prologue

Fluorescent buzz and shadows grip the wall

Plastic sheets crinkle as heavy footsteps fall

I’m weightless and shivering, watching my body sink in

Heartbeat slows, dragging me further within

Hands on my temples, suction deep in my head

Cold rush of silence, I’m halfway to dead

A needle in my vein, the world turns thin

Muffled voices laughing as the ceremony begins

Intro

Blood leaking out slow, circles in my sight

Table's cold steel biting in the light

Cotton in my ear, sharp scrape on my skin

Somewhere I’m leaving, somewhere it begins

Intro

Blood leaking out slow, circles in my sight

Table's cold steel biting in the light

Cotton in my ear, sharp scrape on my skin

Somewhere I’m leaving, somewhere it begins

Verse 1

Voices like insects crawl behind my eyes

Needles pull silence, everything complies

Can’t scream out, paralyzed and aware

Staring at the ceiling, hands in my hair

Funeral home humming low like a hive

Figment of myself, dead head still alive

When they take my blood, I start to drift

Eardrum humming as my body gets stiff

Chorus

Ride of the dead in a black parade

Your blood drains out but you still stay awake

Eardrum sucked, now you're floating away

Air canoe takes you where memories decay

Post-Chorus

Honey drips down, down, down

Repeat it now, now, now

Verse 2

They stitch me up, cotton smile inside my face

Feel every needle, as moments are erased

Lower me gently, a hand on cold ground

Funeral songs playing while I'm locked down

Pre-Chorus

Trip out in the grave, I know what's true

Dead scenes repeat, got nothing left to lose

Eardrum turns to honey, pain is running deep

My orb soul spinning, mind never sleeps

Chorus

Ride of the dead in a black parade

Your blood drains out but you still stay awake

Eardrum sucked, now you're floating away

Air canoe takes you where memories decay

Post-Chorus

Honey drips down, down, down

Repeat it now, now, now

Bridge

Sink through the soil, maggots in my veins

Every memory flickers, looping all the same

Cemetery winds whipping secrets from my skull

Name on the stone, mind a honeycomb dull

Verse 3

Staring at the wood, eyes open but shut

Dripping sweet rot, sugar-thick and cut

I feel their mourning from the earth below

Echoes in a coffin, never let me go

Chorus

Ride of the dead in a black parade

Your blood drains out but you still stay awake

Eardrum sucked, now you're floating away

Air canoe takes you where memories decay

Post-Chorus

Honey drips down, down, down

Repeat it now, now, now