eating me up - finished

Verse 1:

how much I long for
some sleep and some rest
while I'm awaiting
the night's blackness
lurking behind the mist

The line "the night's blackness" has got a bit awkward - the stress should have lain on the last syllable - but will have to do, at least for the time being.

Verse 2:

it hurts me to see
my friend's tears and distress
nothing much I could offer
but try to digress
from the simple truth at hand

and a new verse:

please let me sleep now
let them give me the shot
the dreams of our past
is all what I've got
to kill the time that's left

With exception of the last lines meter and rhyming patterns are the same for verses and chorus. It's supposed to be more like an Irish refrain type song than a typical pop song, with an increase in each second part ("it's eating me up...") similar to "Spartacus" (which doesn't have a refrain or chorus, though, yet just musically alternating verses).