The Vast - Rapture

Something’s quite not right

Again sleep escapes me, far away

You’re the whisper in the back of my head

Teething, serrated and smiling

Knee-deep in this hopeless wreckage

A heartbreak

To tear me apart

Swallowed by the vast, all-consuming

Demanding you here

This uncontrollable hell

A lightless abode

A sleepless complete black

Where ghosts come to me

Through every hole

In each and every wall

Wish I could just sleep

Wish I could explain

Wish I could change the way of things

Wish I would fall away

It’s a slow closure

A cold shape crawling behind me

A storm approaching

A darkness always closer

I ever thought it could

Can never see it coming

The world I’m in is empty

Outside I think I choke

Somehow I can’t help thinking

There is no place for me

(the noise in my head won’t leave)

«all fled--all done

So lift me on the pyre

The feast is over

And the lamps expire.»