Black Dog

As you lie in bed and the whole world’s sleeping
then the thoughts rattle round in your head.
When the only sound is your own heart beating
and the black dogs breathe on your neck

Certain of your self conviction.
Fooled the others, can’t fool yourself
Black Dog heard your first tear falling
Black Dog feeds on your fear

Amplify, exaggerate,
distort and then condemn
Make yourself your judge and jury
then let the sentence begin.

Choked by the fear of your future failures
Paralysed by past mistakes
Then desperate for sleep with dawns light rising
as the rest of the world awakes

Alone in the gleam of the harshest spotlight
revealed your shame is clear.
Black Dog heard your first tear falling
Black Dog feeds on your fear.

When you look in the eye of the storm that’s raging
Who do you see looking back?
Can you see through the smile to the shadows behind me
where there’s a dog crouched low to attack?