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Close, your eyes, you’ll be here soon.
It won’t hurt, he tells them. You’ll be free, he tells them. And he believes it.
Ichi ni san shi go bun.
He counts the last minutes, always precise. His dosage is exact.
Tokidoki, hontou ni netai.
There is unfinished business to be sorted. They’re slipping away, so slowly… He wishes to end it, but his master will not allow it.
Demo, kono waado dekinai
“You’re forbidden to stop helping them.”
Oyasumi…
They always look like they’re sleeping. So peaceful. Sometimes he thinks about…
Oyasumi, Oyasumi
He doesn’t sleep any more. It’s only natural, given what he has done.
Close your eyes and you’ll leave this dream
He never thought about the future. He never predicted this.
Oyasumi, oyasumi
His master would never be the same, it was for the best…
I know that it’s hard to do
How did he live with the guilt?
Days go by, shou ga nai
He can’t stop.
Moments pass, shattered glass
Is it his sanity slipping, or the patient’s consciousness?
Hands of time, where’s that chime?
His time will come, but for now…
In my head, I’ll just…
It’s better to continue.
Hands (Hands!) of time will wring my neck
The feelings suffocate him, not for the first time does he wish to be free of them.
Every little moment spells regret
She would be disappointed, but it’s too late to turn back now.
But I don’t have to feel this way
He knows what to do.
As a voice inside my head
Guilt swallows him, and he will be like all the others.
Oyasumi
Good night.