Folk Insomnia - Darren Hanlon

There’s rumbling in the head again

Inside the head there lived a brain

Inside the brain there lived a dream

That shot 'round like a laser beam

Along nerve endings and synapses

Past the room for memory lapses

Bought about by alcohol

That causes all the self-collapses

Now, that dream’s not the only one

I had plenty more when I was young

But I grew up in a big hurry

And then one day I start to worry that

I’m gonna be a goner before I read all the books I wanna

If I plant a tree now it’ll be fully grown

Long after I’m just dust and bone and

Now I can’t sleep, it’s already 3 AM

And I’m lying here dividing sheep by the square root of ten

So I gave away my clothes to charity

I turned off my TV for clarity

But somedays I still envy those

Walking around wearing my clothes

So i’ll just plant a tree i’ll never see grow

Put a seed in the ground where no one’ll know

Gonna make my plan when the morning breaks

But I just don’t know how long it’ll take

I keep hearing voices and ringing phones

But i’m staring down a highway all alone

With just the company of my stomach rumble

But I feel OK, it makes me humble

Without a load that I must carry

Or a bump in the road to make to tarry

Just a pile of ashes from the miles I’ve burned and everything i’ve learned

What have I learned?

Don’t walk in front of cars or behind horses

Cats don’t drink milk out of flying saucers

Green means go

Yellow: go faster

Red means stop or financial disaster

And don’t ever underestimate the fitness of a determined Jehovas witness

And don’t ever take for granted what grew from every kiss you planted

If a heart can break then a heart can feel

It’s enough to know that you’re alive and real

Not a rattle and bounce in a little white ball

Not a number on a roulette wheel

And hair it turns grey and skin it turns to leather

But the best thing about growing old is we all do it together

So i’ll just plant a tree i’ll never see grow

Put a seed in the ground where no one’ll know

Gonna make my plan when the morning breaks

But i’m just don’t know how long it’ll take

They say that a love that’s shared is a love that’s carried

All the way to the church where you’ll be married

And it’s a long long way alter alter and you don’t have the time to falter

Love will always come and go I hope

But sometimes love goes up in smoke

And you’re left there with the greedy ghost

And just when you need them most

Some of your friends have disappeared

And others started acting weird

And you laying in your bed with an awful feeling

Till you’ve learnt by heart all the cracks in the ceiling

And you think 'Oh god I just related to that awful love song I always hated'

And the past it all becomes distorted like it was broke before you bought it

Remember, you’re the one who paid

For the pin out of the hand grenade

It’s up to you to leave your room

But don’t forget to bring your spade

So you can plant a tree you’ll never see grow

Put a seed in the ground where no one’ll know

Gonna make my plan forever to roam

Gonna feed my nan in the nursing home

Gonna make that plan when the morning breaks

But I just don’t know how long that’ll take