Bleary-Eyed People

from A Sky Full of Ghosts by Sonus Umbra

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I dreamed eerie bleary-eyed people
Came out of the woodwork last night
The searing of my fearing brain
Woke me up with a terrible fright

My semblance of solace is simply
A fallacy laced with despair
In truth or pretending my mind
Is not mending and without a prayer

Tremors in the night
Terror taking flight
Same disturbing dream
Shadows of my home
Silent and alone
Not quite what it seems
Ersatz red sky
Walking down my street
Strangely incomplete
Climbing up the steps
Of the cul-de-sac
Stare into the black
Dull eyes staring back
Wake up screaming

Is this really real?
Can I trust the way I feel?
Carry on through this ordeal,
Or am I lost deep in denial?
I refuse to be
One with wan reality
Misled by mortality
In this cursed life that I revile

Memories betray
I don’t need them anyway
Trade this endless Groundhog Day
For the home that I left behind
Minutes into days
Dimly blending in the haze
Coalesce into malaise
In the hell to which I’m confined

I dreamed eerie bleary-eyed people
Came out of the woodwork last night
But nothing is final, my urge for survival
Won’t give up the fight

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from A Sky Full of Ghosts, released December 22, 2020
Music by Rich Poston, Luis Nasser and Roey Ben-Yoseph
Lyrics by Rich Poston and Roey Ben-Yoseph

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We are a progressive rock band: currently geographically dispersed between Chicago and Abu Dhabi, but established in Mexico City, back in the 20th century. If you want to hear shadows made of sound, we invite you to join us, take the great fall inwards and listen. ... more

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