One in the morning and I can't sleep A billion times I have closed my eyes A couple of shakes and I try to escape But time has me, I sit and realize. I focus on the clock that sits And stares me down like a lion My eyes are dry and I'm tired, I feel it, I squeeze but I really can't start crying. Time ticker strikes two and I yawn pretty big I lay down so I'll be sane in the morning But I guess sleep was not quite my motivation Because I find reality, really, quite boring. Quarter to four and my mind is a bore I still sit and question my size I'm small and mortal and dying, I know, I'm nothing compared to the skies. But the time is going, it still bores on, It rambles like my thoughts on this night And I won't go to bed because I know it won't stop Clocks don't freeze at the first sign of life. We're caught in the spiral that I've come to get So I spend all my time imagining it gone But here on this morning, when five rolls around, These thoughts are not leaving at dawn. I was thinking that maybe if I think hard enough If I think all of these problems right through I'll understand why I'm insane in this way And why the clocks don't even care if there's dew. Closer to six and my head hits the pillow It's not time that I've seemed to understand I really get, now, that I've been thinking too much And I'm truly on the underhand. I'm come to terms with the fact that one day I'll just be words and thoughts and 'remember her's My legacy will, one day, not exist And my ideas will not be much of a blur. I'm starting to see, as it's now seven o'clock That the clocks are simply running the race They're in the lead, slowly beating me, Time is just the subject of the chase.