swallowing sleep

i swallowed a handful of sleep last night, we met in the strangest place, somewhere on a rooftop, i could see everything, hearing every perfect word, i couldn't open my mouth to tell you what's been burning me, i'll place these pills under my tongue, our portraits torn from where they hung, the projector reels in all my worst fears, my eyelids are a screen for all those years, i'd kill to show you that there's been a change in me, i know you're doing well, i wish i could say the same for me, the drugs and the drinking are the only way i see you any more, i'll become an addict just so we can talk about our future, i'll place these pills under my tongue, our portraits torn from where they hung, the projector reels in all my worst fears, my eyelids are a screen, i can see you in the shadows, doesn't matter where you are, i can hear your perfect wording burning slowly through my heart, we jumped from a cherry blossom until we hit the blue, she's not you, she's not you and i'm not myself, we were invincible, i loved how it felt, i drew my heart in chalk on the floor, without these pills i don't sleep anymore, i'll place these pills under my tongue, our portraits torn from where they hung, the projector reels in all my worst fears, my eyelids are a screen, i'll place these pills under my tongue, our portraits torn from where they hung, the projector reels in all my worst fears, my eyelids are a screen, i can see you in the shadows, doesn't matter where you are, i can hear your perfect wording burning slowly through my heart, we jumped from a cherry blossom until we hit the blue, she's not you