Half Asleep (Alternate Version)

Sometimes I go whole days

Listening bored, half asleep

I won't say anything

That's worth a thing to me

One day, suddenly time took a turn that once felt so brief

I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly

What begins as an unguarded train of thoughts

Slowly can become an addiction

To the slumber of disconnection and resonance

Of memory that no longer has a shape

But keeps you numb through the hours till gone is another day

Be aware, my darling

These things I say I mean

Are just traces of something

I long to feel again

I see our time expand in the air almost forcibly

Spreading thinner till it dissolves completely

What begins as an unguarded train of thoughts

Slowly can become an addiction

To the slumber of disconnection and resonance

Of memory that no longer has a shape

But keeps you numb through the hours till gone is another day