Border Crossing - Lyrics - B. Dolan

Fade up on the scene As he wrestles with the dream In the in-between place Not awake, not asleep Such a waste. His sunken face Frozen in a scream Hypnotized by the click click click of poker chips on the TV. Falling All-In And the dealer reveals a card Reach for the remote but he's so far gone. Just give up and leave it on, Noises bleeding into one, Voices speak to him in tongues, rain beating like a drum. Can't shake the awful feeling; They're feeding on his blood! Can't get up, can't get out Too much doubt to overcome Too much lost, shut the door, cut em off. No cure but to batten down the hatches, But when the night falls There's a storm in the mattress The ship gets blasted by the wind and the downpour No map, no captain, no order, no course No path towards morning Or witness to the end, Another victim of life, a prisoner in this bed Caught up at the border of the living and the dead! Caught up at the border of the living and the dead! Can't get to sleep so the dream never ends! Caught up at the border of the living and the dead! That's deep. How deep? It's deeper than Atlantis The tide drops before the surge Bonded in his words Everything is terrible, unsettled The earth trembles Splinters into fragments, missing and imbalanced Secrets of the deep Make him rage against the sheets Used to think it would be beautiful to never rest in (Peace!) But God is an insomniac who never gets to (Sleep!) Another victim of addiction to scripted (Reality!) There's no Survivors in the Real World, just Greed and Jeopardy Re-occurring dreams of *** scenes and skirting the police He did the dirty deed, surely destined to be Hung by the Jury the verdict is reached The sentence is set No mercy, no pardon, no appeal, no rest No escape from the collection of his unforgiven debt No stay of execution from the judges in his head Keeps looking at the time but the night never ends When you're caught up at the border of the living and the dead. Caught up at the border of the living and the dead! Can't get to sleep so the dream never ends! Caught up at the border of the living and the dead! That's deep. How deep? It's deeper than Atlantis