Sweet Earth Won’t Let Us Sleep

Verse 1

Lowered quietly, so gently dark

Earth presses in, damp blanket, weight

Single sound

Dirt settling on the wood

Pressure grows — marrow aches

Sweet air gone — night thick

Murmur — movement

All that I am, staying still

Supposed to fade, mold, and leave

But honey seeps through veins

Chorus

Sweet earth won’t let us sleep

We stay, sealed in gold

Still feeling everything

Preserved and alone

Post-Chorus

No rest, no ending

No rest, no ending

Verse 2

Roots curl, invade, slow hunger

Memory circles, never stops

I count each passing tremor

Hear the shovels fading — too far

Mouth full of sugar and mud

Soft on my tongue — cruel comfort, sickly warm

Listen — insects climbing bone

Can’t thrash, can’t beg

Years collapse, forget my name

A cough — then silence, thick

Chorus

Sweet earth won’t let us sleep

We stay, sealed in gold

Still feeling everything

Preserved and alone

Post-Chorus

No rest, no ending

No rest, no ending

Bridge

I wanted rot, I wanted peace

Mercy, mercy, never comes

Pain is permanent — dulled by honey

Dreams loop, dreams loop, dreams loop

No voice finds me

No scream escapes

Verse 3

Maybe above — fog, moon.

Maybe someone lingers, reads the stone

Below, below it seeps deeper

Amber warmth, restraint, decay denied

We are still here

Still — held

Endured, awake, unending

Chorus

Sweet earth won’t let us sleep

We stay, sealed in gold

Still feeling everything

Preserved and alone

Outro

Warmth beneath the stone

Stillness, never gone

Stillness, never gone