Call Me John Doe

I awake in the hospital with a bandage on my head
A woman in deep lachrymosity sits next to the bed.
Totally relieved she smiles, claiming to be my wife
But I've never laid eyes upon her in all of my life.


I am spoken to by name, a name I can't place
I look into a mirror at this stranger's face.
I have two concerned children, Rebecca and Jim
It pains me so much because I do not know them.


--A memory in limbo, my mind is a blank
as though God almighty is playing a prank.
--Faces of people that I'm suppose to know
are but strangers to me, call me John Doe.


My parents are only two more faces in the crowd
My brain has betrayed me, my mind is in a cloud.
Even my childhood I'm unable to recall
I just cannot remember anything at all.


Dark shadows overcome me and out goes the sane
I have come to this point with unbearable pain.
With a gun and a picture of my children and wife
I shall end all the madness and with it, my life!


--A memory in limbo, my mind is a blank
as though God almighty is playing a prank.
--Death is but another face I don't really know;
Is the face of death better than life as John Doe?


The barrel is cold as it's placed against my head
My finger on the trigger--here soon I'll be dead.
My life now forgotten, my will-power seems gone
When a voice in me cried out, "don't do it Sean!"
Through all my confusion comes an end to the game
Because I just remembered... I remembered my name.


--A memory recovered, my mind is intact
a family united, our happiness brought back.
--Faces of people that are familiar to me
are strangers no more, John doe is set free!