The Nightmare

Out of the crypt and into the cosmos Reality is turned by funeral bells Violet candles smolder into roses Grimacing skulls beckon death knell The slumbering haunted veils Fade into mystic shadows The soul under its own spell Faced with fears of the unknown Living, dying, haunted by the spells of the night Breathing, screaming, bleeding under the moonlight Sorcery is cast into sleeping skies Ashes of stars fall to spectral hands The waking hymns speak no lies When staring into the cosmic talisman As the shadows creep into the eyes Solitude fears the lonely world of man Castle walls forever guard the mind From yesterday's ghosts we command