Sad Screaming Old Man-Jeffrey Lewis

[00:25.41]I'm used to apartments with walls that are weak [00:27.91]Sometimes I'd hear it all if my neighbours would speak [00:30.58]But this recent apartment and bedroom that I got [00:33.11]Started out seeming decent, more boring than not [00:35.77]For two or three years nothing happened at all [00:38.20]There was an old man next door that I would see in the hall [00:40.96]He shuffled politely and wears an old suit [00:43.32]You know, a standard old geezer, a quiet old coot [00:46.09]He used to seem normal but then all at once [00:48.60]He started these nocturnal groanings and grunts [00:51.16]It's hard to get used to, it gives me the creeps [00:53.60]Pretty much every night now, he screams when he sleeps [00:56.44]Dark night of our souls [00:59.02]Dark night of our hearts [01:01.64]Dropping down the bottomless hole [01:04.17]I just need to get some sleep [01:05.30]I don't know when I might begin [01:06.55]But I don't want another minute [01:08.02]In this same-old story purgatory [01:09.68]Stop the torture old man [01:10.71]And please don't be myself from the future! [01:14.82]If it was a dog bark or a screaming infant [01:17.40]I'd probably be fine, back asleep in an instant [01:19.88]But picture me lying there alone in my bed [01:22.36]When this old man just lets out these shrieks near my head [01:24.97]And now every night at like 3 in the A.M [01:27.64]I get woken up by this miserable mayhem [01:30.32]Who's being dismembered? What the hell is wrong? [01:32.72]I'm scared that he'll send me insane before long [01:35.39]And it makes me afraid just to be me like I am [01:37.81]Cause it could be my fatal moment, screaming old man [01:40.49]Tell me what did he do, in his youth for this torture [01:43.27]And what if I'm him and it's true that he's me in the future? [01:46.00]Dark night of our souls [01:48.68]Dark night of our hearts [01:51.35]Dropping down the bottomless hole [01:53.68]I just need to get some sleep [01:54.84]I don't know when I might begin [01:56.19]But I don't want another minute [01:57.65]In this same-old story purgatory [01:59.32]Stop the torture old man [02:00.40]And please don't be myself from the future! [02:04.27]I'm used to apartments with walls that are weak [02:06.77]Sometimes I'd hear it all if my neighbours would speak [02:09.34]But this recent apartment and bedroom that I got [02:12.00]Started out seeming decent, more boring than not [02:14.58]But now it's like trying to sleep in a Guantanamo cellblock [02:17.33]Or a hospital hellhole for some horrible shell shock [02:19.97]Or a medieval dungeon with sadistic conditions [02:22.57]Where some pitiful someone is getting whipped while you listen [02:25.06]And you know in the dark when your mind is just spinning [02:27.70]And you get visions of weird things with no ends or beginnings [02:30.31]I drift off for a bit and then he's screaming some more [02:32.89]And I'm scared that he's me and I'm the him from before [02:35.43]I get some paranoid fantasy sci-fi scenarios [02:38.20]They seem dumb in the daylight but for now again there he goes! [02:41.15]Dark night of our souls (dark night soul!) [02:43.91]Dark night of our hearts (dark night heart!) [02:46.56]Dropping down the bottomless hole [02:48.95]I just need to get some sleep [02:50.07]I don't know when I might begin [02:51.42]But I don't want another minute [02:52.89]In this same-old story purgatory [02:54.58]Stop the torture old man [02:55.60]And please don't be myself from the future! [02:59.63]Well you know Jeffrey, it's true what you say [03:02.39]I once was like you but then I turned out this way [03:04.99]I lived my own life complaining love wasn't there [03:07.42]It was never enough to sacrifice for, or care [03:10.13]And I once had a cat and I had one or two pals [03:12.47]And I would go and hang out, sorta like that way you do now [03:15.32]But now all I can do is just scream in the darkness [03:17.97]For pain inside ninety years, empty and heartless [03:20.51]If you grow seeking freedom, you're a rose, breathe and bloom [03:22.97]So you know it's already leading you down the road to this room [03:25.62]Thought I'd get glory from war, in the dark in a trench [03:28.03]Then I spent forty years more just in a park, on a bench [03:30.75]And it's all existentially hopeless eventually [03:33.41]You're just dementedly shrieking like me, like you were meant to be [03:36.30]I am sent not as a warning [03:38.58]But as an acceptance [03:40.42]So accept it! [03:42.08]It is already written! [03:43.90]It is already happening! [03:45.96]You are already here! [03:48.57](screaming)