[Chorus: Stephan Jenkins] And I say I, I try to keep awake I try to swim beneath I try to keep awake But I, I can feel this narcolepsy slide Into another nightmare
[Verse 2: Stephan Jenkins] And there's a demon in my head who starts to play A nightmare tape loop of what went wrong yesterday And I hold my breath till it's more than I can take And I close my eyes, I dream that I'm awake
[Chorus: Stephan Jenkins] I try to keep awake I try to keep awake I try to keep awake But I, I can feel this narcolepsy slide Into another nightmare
[Bridge: Stephan Jenkins] How'd you like to be alone and drowning How'd you like to be alone and drowning How'd you like to be alone and drowning How'd you like to be alone and drowning
[Chorus: Stephan Jenkins] Still I find this narcolepsy slide, slide Into another nightmare
[Outro: Stephan Jenkins] Keep awake, keep awake, keep awake I can feel this narcolepsy slide
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Cadogan: “Narcolepsy” was about nightmares I was having, and I wrote down some ideas, played some chords… I was talking about this sleep post-paralysis where you’re awake, but your brain isn’t quite awake yet. It’s that feeling like you’re dying or suffocating. Stephan grew up in Palo Alto… none of us were too deeply disturbed, so [the album] is not necessarily autobiographical.
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“Don’t we all just want to wake up?” – Stephan Jenkins