I’ve got this tinnitus ring in my ear

I shake my head but it just won’t clear

I can never turn the music down

I need to drown the world out

I’ve got this newspaper print on my eyes

I only see the world through the headlines

And I can’t make the meaning out

So I slam eyelids like shutters down

I’m incommunicado

I need a news embargo

I’m getting dizzy from the spin

The same sickening beat they’re drumming in

I’ve got this bruise on my ego

My punch bag pride took too many low blows

Now I’m scared to leave my home

Waiting for the next bomb to explode

Dull the senses

Kill the nerve endings

I’m incommunicado

I need a news embargo

I’m getting dizzy from the spin

The same sickening beat they’re drumming in

Until I can’t hear myself think

Dull the senses

Kill the nerve endings

I don’t want to feel the fall

As we’re

descending

At night I dream I’m falling

It no longer stops when I wake up

L. Switzer