Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awake in hell
One day I saw a man asleep
In a doorway on the street 
Through walls of sheltered inhibition 
I perceived his condition. 
Dying of hunger, and exposure 
Food and shelter, two blocks over. 
Within this place we breed and dwell 
We've created living hell. 
Sleep long, sleep well 
Only to awake in hell. 
City sleeps and pigeons flutter, 
Vagrant dies in the gutter 
Prideless death somehow befitting 
To life spent working on forgetting. 
Riding on the bus, I looked outside and thought about death, 
Passing cars the only tribute to his gasping final breath. 
Sleep long, sleep well, 
Only to awake in hell. 
Then I went home, to get my mind off things, 
I decided to watch television. 
Constant subliminal brain immersion 
Subconscious death wish coercion. 
Buy and consume and want and need 
Never fall from the trap of greed. 
I thought about the bitter pain 
Of jail cells and falling rain, 
I thought ahead and I looked away, 
What can you do anyway ? 
In sheltered youth and our pretension 
Avert our eyes to divert attention 
Only to see the human victims 
Always there to remind us. 
Sleep long, sleep well, Only to awake in hell.