As the world slept I lay awake,
As the world slept I wrestled with questions I couldn't answer,
As the world slept I lay awake fearing I was breaking all over again,
As the world slept I prayed the voices in my head would be quite even just for a moment,
As the world slept I watched the sun rise
As the world slept I smiled and believed in the hope of a new day,
As the world slept the sun's rays shone the light of endless possibilities in my heart,
As the world slept the darkness lifted I'm free of my fears,
When the world wakes I too will step out
Join all of humanity in it's rhythm of living,
Bravely step out and mark my footprint on this land.

Every time the night comes I pray I will not wake,
I pray the day of my reckoning draws near and my soul the reaper shall take,
But truthfully I just don't want to feel this ache,
That haunts me and shakes my very core until I break,
And on the outside I play pretend, smile and make believe for your sake,
Be strong they say it all gets better in time but the clock keeps ticking and there's no sign of daybreak,
So when the night comes, I will once more pray that I will not wake.