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intro:
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G b C G
In a nightmare, I am falling from the ceiling into bed beside you.
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You're asleep, I'm screaming, shoving you to try to wake you up.
G b C G
And like before, you've got no interest in the life you live when you're awake.
e a C e
Your dreams still follows storylines, like fictions you would make.
G b C G
So I lie down against your back, until we're both back in the hospital.
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But now it's not a cancer ward, we're sleeping in the morgue.
G b C G
Men and women in blue and white, they are singing all around you,
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with heavy shovels holding earth. You're being buried to the neck.
G b C b
In that hospital bed, being buried quite alive now.
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I'm trying to dig you out but all you want is to be buried there together.
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You're screaming and cursing,
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and angry, and hurting me,
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and then smiling, and crying, apologizing.
G b C G
I've woken up, I'm in our bed, but there's no breathing body there beside me.
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Someone must have taken you while I was stuck asleep.
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But I know better as my eyes adjust.
C G
You've been gone for quite awhile now,
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and don't work there in the hospital (they had to let me go.)
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When I try to move my arms sometimes, they weigh too much to lift.
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I think you buried me awake (my one and only parting gift.)
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But you return to me at night, just when I think I may have fallen asleep.
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Your face is up against mine, and I'm too terrified to speak.
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You're screaming and cursing,
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and angry, and hurting me,
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and then smiling, and crying, apologizing.
