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Sleeping With Eyes Open

from A Desperate Cry for Help by Matt Coggins

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The music was written while Tito and I fiddled with a tiny, broken amp and a crappy guitar in 2010. Half the lyrics came from my experiences from my first semester of college, the second half was a message to an old girlfriend who complained a lot.
Recorded in April of 2012 at the original Arctic Sounds Studios in Flint, MI, with Andy Philippi assisting.

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I woke up one night from a dream
I dreamt that I was trying to go to sleep
And I can't see why it seems so hard
When I can fall asleep driving a car.

I've been sleeping all day with my eyes wide open
Did I miss anything? I didn't miss anything.

I fell asleep one day in a chair
My mind didn't feel like it was going anywhere
And right when I felt like I was learning something
I woke up from a deep deep dream.

I've been sleeping all day with my eyes wide open
Did I miss anything? I didn't miss anything.

The path of life is made of straight lines
The lines are very small and the path is very wide
And it winds

You say your life hasn't been the best and it makes you want to cry, you think why doesn't anybody feel the way that I do, why doesn't anybody else just want to die?
Because you've been awake for hours, and they've been sleeping they're whole lives.
You could bury your head and go to bed, or you could live and sleep with open eyes.

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from A Desperate Cry for Help, track released April 14, 2012
Lyrics by Matt Coggins
Music by Matt Coggins/Aaron Kolb/Earl Grey

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