XV - Falling Awake lyrics

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Verse One: XV

Didn’t go to college, my mama gave me the saddest look

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle backpack with a rabbit foot

Never wanna grow up, still fighting with Captain Hook

Everyone confessing with questions about the path I took

I laid down and never woke up it seems

Never opened my eyes, I just opened my dreams

Then I opened the curtain, but I closed out the scene

Of my son with a dad and my girl with a ring

‘Cause now I’m up on stage and I hear all the screams

And the girls backstage are down to do anything

So sometimes I slip off like shoes without strings

And that OJ’s love train is losing its steam

My son wants to stay up, my girl wants to lay up

My mom wants to talk, my agent wants his pay cut

A dream becomes a nightmare, my buzz takes a light-year

And all the while right there, my girl’s telling me to wake up

If that’s the real life then all of this is fake

The dream that you’re living is too much for me to take

It all becomes real in that bed that I made

So every time I lay down, I fall awake

Hook

And it’s not what it seems

I don’t wanna sleep if you’re not in my dreams, I fall awake

I wake up dreaming, I fall awake

I make believe what they believe I make

Success is close but far away so I wake up dreaming, I fall awake

And it’s not what it seems

I don’t wanna sleep if you’re not in my dreams, I fall awake

Verse 2: XV

I used to dream about my grandmother daily

And then my dreams is real life but I ain’t seen her lately

Comic stores open and I wait for her to take me

I can scream at the top of my lungs like Mr. Spacely

I writing, fighting these tears for fears

Fighting the hears and cheers like in the battles between titans

And I just want a quiet place to Brighton

My crippled reality has un-tightened and my dream world is heightened

‘Cause that’s the only place where my love once stayed

Not in the ground, decay, the love don’t fade

It all becomes real in that bed that I made

So every time I lay down, I fall awake

Hook