If I Could Fall Asleep

If I Could Fall Asleep
(by Cary Cooper)

I balance with my blue umbrella
When I walked the wires
But I laid it down a while ago
To slow dance with the vampires
You’re sleeping in the next room
I’m stealing blood and glory
With the ones who need the dark of night
Just to tell their story

I walk an inch above the ground
Trying not to wake you
With the lonely sound of worrying
Whose poetry will break you
The voice inside my head screams
Like a siren in the distance
There for so damn long
That I forget to pay attention

If I could fall asleep, if I could fall asleep, if I could fall asleep, we’d be fine...we’d be fine

And I’ve been burning photographs
Where memories remind me
Of the days when I would hide a while
Before I’d let you find me
But I’ve run out of patience
For the games we played as children
And I’d trade in those shoes for some
More comfortable and lived in

If I could fall asleep, if I could fall asleep, if I could fall asleep…

Rock-a-bye your baby on the treetop of your shoulder
Funny how the bough just keeps on breaking when we’re older

I manufacture messes
Just to feed my inner villains
Won’t you piece me back together
Like before when you were willing
If only I could fall asleep
I’d curl up in your spoon
And you could sing a lullaby
My butterfly’s cocoon

If I could fall asleep, if I could fall asleep, if I could fall asleep, we’d be fine…we’d be fine