Epilogue-The Antlers

[ti:Epilogue] [ar:The Antlers] [al:Hospice] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Epilogue - The Antlers [00:16.83]In a nightmare I am falling from the ceiling into bed beside you [00:23.96]You're asleep I'm screaming shoving you to try to wake you up [00:29.11] [00:29.81]And like before you've got no interest in the life you live when you're awake [00:37.13]Your dreams still follow storylines like fictions you would make [00:42.38] [00:43.27]So I lie down against your back until we're both back in the hospital [00:50.12] [00:50.83]But now it's not a cancer ward we're sleeping in the morgue [00:56.23] [00:57.01]Men and women in blue and white they are singing all around you [01:03.33] [01:03.89]With heavy shovels holding earth you're being buried to you neck [01:09.82] [01:10.45]In that hospital bed being buried quite alive now [01:17.24]I'm trying to dig you out but all you want is [01:21.08]To be buried there together [01:23.47] [01:24.32]You're screaming and cursing [01:30.85]And angry and hurting me [01:36.97] [01:37.50]And then smiling and crying [01:43.63] [01:44.23]Apologizing [01:50.58] [01:51.15]I've woken up I'm in our bed but there's no breathing body there beside me [01:58.67]Someone must have taken you while I was stuck asleep [02:03.65] [02:04.45]But I know better as my eyes adjust you've been gone for quite awhile now [02:11.30]And I don't work there in the hospital they had to let me go [02:17.26] [02:18.08]When I try to move my arms sometimes they weigh too much to lift [02:24.30] [02:25.07]I think you buried me awake my one and only parting gift [02:30.75] [02:31.59]But you return to me at night just when I think [02:35.89]I may have fallen asleep [02:38.75]Your face is up against mine and I'm too terrified to speak [02:44.41] [02:45.26]You're screaming and cursing [02:51.97]And angry and hurting me [02:58.70]And then smiling and crying [03:05.12] [03:05.85]Apologizing [03:11.33] [03:12.37]You're screaming and cursing [03:18.80]And angry and hurting me [03:25.24] [03:25.77]And then smiling and crying [03:31.82] [03:32.60]Apologizing [03:38.40] [03:39.53]You're screaming and cursing [03:45.94]And angry and hurting me [03:52.74]And then smiling and crying [03:58.89] [03:59.82]Apologizing