REM Siege

Verse 1

Sirens under pillowlight

Footsteps marching through the night

Closed-eye banners, velvet flags

Dreams advance in silent drags

Windowshades become the walls

Heartbeat drums in hallway halls

City sleeps with open mouth

Night unfolds and pulls us south

Pre-Chorus

Lock the breath and count to ten

They are here and here again

Chorus

REM siege, hold the line

Shadow regiments in time

Every sleeper, every street

Falls to synchronized heartbeat

REM siege, break the day

Turn the bright world ghost and grey

Waking falters, dream takes lead

Kneel before the midnight creed

Verse 2

Hush of boots on memory

Stars arrayed in infantry

Lanterns made of borrowed fears

Spill their oil in our ears

Doorways bloom with velvet teeth

Moonlight forges chains beneath

Names are taken, tongues are tied

Truth is folded, dream applied

Pre-Chorus

Lock the breath and count to ten

They are here and here again

Chorus

REM siege, hold the line

Shadow regiments in time

Every sleeper, every street

Falls to synchronized heartbeat

REM siege, break the day

Turn the bright world ghost and grey

Waking falters, dream takes lead

Kneel before the midnight creed

Bridge

Raise the pulse, unseal the eye

Cut the tether, learn to fly

Beat the drum that’s truly yours

Shatter all their velvet doors

Final Chorus

REM siege, not this time

I reclaim my inner sky

Every cadence, every beat

Breaks beneath my waking feet

REM siege, fade away

Sunrise burns your paper sway

I return the breath you stole—

Open light, rejoin the soul