The Noise Inside My Head

It's 3 a.m. and I am laying wide-awake
And I can't sleep for the noise inside my head
The world vibrating with a cruel cacophony
Flooded with the thoughts my mind has bled

The restless furor of a thousand racing thoughts
Swarm around me like a vulture circles prey
In the darkness, no one else can hear a sound
But I am deafened by this ceaseless disarray

I could scream myself to sleep
If it would shatter the illusion
But I can't give in to this
'Cause it's the noise that makes me human

Waking life like a movie on a screen
Running backwards as the film starts to unthread
A wall of violence bounding forward through the peace
With no regard for what might lie ahead

An infestation of arbitrary thought
Washes over me in paralyzing waves
My defenses battered by the driving storm
Isolated, waiting to be saved

I could scream myself to sleep
If it would shatter the illusion
But I can't give in to this
'Cause it's the noise that makes me human

It's much too late, and I am slowly losing ground
A prisoner to the noise inside my head
Disconnected, I am trapped within myself
Held captive by a tide that never ebbs

I could scream myself to sleep
If it would shatter the illusion
But I can't give in to this
'Cause it's the noise that makes me human

I could scream myself to sleep
If it would shatter the illusion
But I can't give in to this
'Cause it's the noise that makes me human