Insomniac (Darker Times)

*Insomniac (Darker Times)* was the seventh officially released single by NetNobody and the second of two songs released on May 9, 2017, the first being *Gum Girl*. This song is particularly notable for its history of being considered lost media. It was the second to last NetNobody song to be produced by Jason Probst before the two would have a falling-out, resulting in all music they made together being made private and all platforms.

## Production

On December 21, 2016, NetNobody would go live on Periscope via his secondary Twitter account, @yoitsadambro, which he had created to separate himself from his child friendly "Sky" persona. During this stream Adam would preview, or in some cases play songs he had been working on in their entirety. He played nine total songs, six of which were played in their entirety. Three additional songs were played as clips, with one being an early version of *Insomniac (Darker Times)*. The other two clips played were of *Pain* and *UFO*. This early version of the song had a few notable differences from the final released version. The song had an entirely different beat and tone, but the lyrics were mostly the same, just in a different order than the released version. Of the nine songs played, *Insomniac (Darker Times)* was one of only two that ended up having an official release, the other being *Drowning* which remained unchanged in its released version.

## Removal and Rediscovery

Sometime in early July of 2017 *Insomniac (Darker Times)* and *Untitled* became the second and third songs to be removed from the official NetNobody Soundcloud page. It has never been made clear why either song has been removed. In a video posted to his *Sky Does Everything* channel on May 30th, 2020, titled *REACTING TO MY OLD MUSIC!*, before playing a twenty-two-second clip of *Untitled*, Adam says "I instantly removed this one. You'll understand." After *Untitled*, he then plays thirteen seconds of *Insomniac (Darker Times).* This thirteen second clip was enough to reengage interest in the song by fans who then started a search for it. On February 21st, 2021, a link to an unlisted YouTube live stream was found by the YouTube channel *NetNobody Vault*. The stream originally went live on October 23rd, 2019, and was unlisted that same day. During the stream, all NetNobody songs are shuffle-played in the background, including both *Untitled* and *Insomniac (Darker Times).* Although the songs had now been found in their entirety, they were in low quality with multiple people talking over them for their entire duration, making the songs hard to understand. In the following days of the stream's rediscovery, more unlisted live stream links were found, with multiple having the songs played in the background at some point. During one of these streams when *Insomniac (Darker Times)* is being played in the background, a viewer asks Adam in the chat what the song playing was. Adam responds by saying: 'This song is called Insomniac by NetNobody. Somebody has re-uploaded it somewhere, I'm sure." This reply means that it is likely he was not aware of the two songs being lost at the time. Two different YouTube channels, *NetNobody Archive* and *NetNobody Vault*, attempted to recreate the songs using clips from the live streams. About a month after the reconstructions had been uploaded, the songs were finally found completely on March 25th, 2021. YouTube user *w\_o\_r\_s\_t\_g\_u\_y* commented on one of *Another Archive's* videos claiming to have both of the songs. After reading an article about them written on the Lost Media Wiki, he realized that the songs were lost and that he still possessed the original SoundCloud files. Shortly after his comment, both *Untitled* and *Insomniac (Darker Times)* were both uploaded to his channel, complete with high quality.

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## Lyrics

**[Chorus]**

I Feel like an insomniac

OxyContin in my backpack

Just to get the mind to calm

(just to calm)

Numb the pain inside my brain

Swear to god I’m going insane

But I fucking hate that she’s gone

I Feel like an insomniac

OxyContin in my backpack

Just to get the mind to calm

(just to calm)

Numb the pain inside my brain

Swear to god I’m going insane

But I fucking hate that she’s gone

**[Verse 1]**

I feel like I’ve lost all

Puts me in a trust fall

Drown my needs with alcohol, I

Feel like I was trying

Now it feels like I am dying

I don’t want to try at all, I

Hear what you’ve been saying

Voice replaying in brain

Keep myself awake all night

I keep myself awake all night

I keep myself awake

(just sleep)

**[Verse 2]**

I haven’t slept for so long

Feelin’ like I’m gone gone gone gone

Wishing that I’d done more

Pills, Bottles

Stained floor with my words

So long, long, long

Mixing drinks

Taking pills

Makes you feel like I don’t lose something real

Like I don’t lose something real

Something so real

Say sleep

Will come soon (Will it?)

But don’t trap my mind inside this empty room

I think of you

I dream of you

I drink for you

**[Chorus]**

I Feel like an insomniac

OxyContin in my backpack

Just to get the mind to calm

(just to calm)

Numb the pain inside my brain

Swear to god I’m going insane

But I fucking hate that she’s gone

I Feel like an insomniac

OxyContin in my backpack

Just to get the mind to calm

(just to calm)

Numb the pain inside my brain

Swear to god I’m going insane

But I fucking hate that she’s gone

**[Ending Verse]**

I should go to sleep

(go to sleep)

I should go to bed

I should go to sleep

(I need to go to bed)

**[Outro]**

I fuckin’ can’t sleep

Fuck

## Trivia

* *Insomniac (Darker Times)* is the first of two NetNobody songs to have a section of the title in parenthesis. The second song is *You Don't (Know Me).*
* Although *Insomniac (Darker Times)* and *Untitled* are the two songs considered lost for the longest time, *Psycho Society* and *Gum Girl* were also lost for a considerable amount of time. *Drowning* was also at one point considered lost, but only for days rather than months or years like the other songs.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/YoItsAdamBro/status/862055151657402368
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUnRmnjV34Y&t=61s
3. ↑ [1]
4. ↑ [2]One of the reconstruction attempts.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 [3]The video with a comment from w\_o\_r\_s\_t\_g\_u\_y saying that he had both Untitled and Insomniac (Darker Times)