A silent sleeping vampire, arisen from his grave
   His eyes still quiet in the dark
   The only sign of breathing, a flicker on my skin
   The only sign of life, my beating heart
  
   What does it take to open my eyes
   What does it take to register surprise
   What does it take to feel joy
   What does it take to feel pain
  
   Floors creep but doors are still
   I've read all the books about being ill
   I know the truth, the truth knows I'm right
   One day you'll fear me in the night
  
   CHORUS:
   A drowning mind sees daylight, coming up for air
   I've been working hard for this all of my life
   and I like it this way
  
   I know they're staking my house
   That's why I'm quiet like a mouse
   I don't know love but I know what's right
   I feel my sickness every night
  
   TV fills my world with light
   Twenty-four hours of second sight
   I talk to God on my station
   He give s me secret information
  
   REPEAT CHORUS
  
   SOLO
  
   Mother suffocate me
   Mother suffocate me
   There's no way out of here
   It's tearing me apart
   There's no way out of here
   There's no way out of here
   Mother suffocate me
   There's no way out of here
   There's no way out of here
   No, no, no way out of here