At night the work seems a little bit more happy As the ones who can’t sleep sit on their beds and look out the windows For once the world looks happy Theirs no screaming children in toy stores Or angry business men yelling at their phone For 8 hours in a day when everyone is asleep we can pretend that the world is a happy place Even if we know other wise
We can look at the world the same way we did as children With hope for whatever is out there We can fake the thoughts of happiness while we sit in the dark And when the sun rises the next morning we’ll go back to our lives The loves where we know that the world isn’t the way we wished it was a children The way it really is
Cold Alone Scary Hopeless
But for eight hours As we sit on our beds, unable to sleep We can pretend that the world is different We can pretend that it’s the way it shoud be