These violent dreams They're reoccurring Straight through the winter I wake up sweating The floorboards splinter The paint is peeling These violent dreams, they're so revealing It's like it's damage for damage done A little payback for everyone It supplies some heavy sedation To calm this cold calculation These violent dreams They get worse I get better You know they're the only thing That keeps me together These painful thoughts and twisted motives They grow in cracks they swarm like locusts They shake my body and wrack my conscience They over gear, the gears malfunction