The kettle can whisper
The kettle can shout
The pills can pull
But they always give out
Nothing can take me
And less keeps me there
'Cause sleep it's a beast
Polar and bare

Tossing and turning
Awake in the night
Helplessly burning up
In candlelight
Holding up tightly
To all that is real
'Cause when the dark falls
I'll burn what I feel

I don't think I know
How to rest mellow and slow
I just made my bed
On the storm inside my head

My thoughts will stutter
And my mind will race
My heart is a bird and
My head is a cage
If I abandon
Hope of a key
Maybe the lock
Will break and make free

I don't think I know
How to rest mellow and slow
I just made my bed
On the storm inside my head

Hours and hours
In the day
Rest I spend awake
Hours and hours
In the night
It's the rest I try to fight

I don't think I know
How to rest mellow and slow
I just made my bed
On the storm inside my...