Pharmaceutical Solution

A comforting addiction
goes down smoothly without a taste
A pharmaceutical solution
when reality is just too hard to face

Memories start flashing
like snapshots in my mind
Pictures I wish I'd burned
ones meant to be left behind

In cobwebbed corners etched in color
not even black and white
Reality becomes too much
I'm much too tired now to fight

Just one-half of a pill
the beast shrinks away
Blissfull sleep and peace
suddenly float my way

I'm dancing on a cloud
not a care in the world
Suddenly the nightmares come
crashing down my door

I try so hard to ignore them
fighting hard to push them away
All I really want is some peace
with them here life just seems so gray

I call on my friends, my pills
I'm allowed to call just once a day
Ashamed about needing them
so I keep them hidden, tucked neatly away

One more half a pill
Ahh, I feel it slipping away
Finally dreamless slumber
no more ghosts blocking the way

So when reality is just too much
When the past gets in the way
One little pill, my friend, my companion
helps it all go away