Nightmares Never End

In the dwindling twilight time is unwinding, lines are blurred
Under the guise of a child into your nightmare, I've been lured
Like a puppet, tied and hung up tightly bound
Your strings I've been strung to, I dream that I'd run away from you
If my feet could feel the ground

Now I'm out of the woods, safe and sound as I board up the doors
But once I'm in the clear, and free of all fear, I find that I'm hungry for more
The hunt has begun, hold onto your hats, if it isn't knives, it's eyes in your back
So whether you're friendly with rats, pretend you're a mouse in a house full of cats

Pale is the prison they doomed me to dwell
With room for just one, but two in a cell
The dusk is upon us, I knew as it fell
That darkness is honest, are you to yourself?
With my thoughts are distorted and body dysmorphed
Into monstrous forms of the awfullest sorts
We're locked up with dolls and their hollowed out corpses
All haunted by hunger, the omniscient force

So often my reveries are littered with the debris of my hopes and dreams
As we all grow to be old and bitter, a tale foretold in broken screens
How blinding the glare, your mind is so weak
I'd like you to share this nightmare with me
I hide in my hood, not to show you my eyes
I know that I'll fail with no coattail to ride

Mannequin paired with marionette
In dissonant discord, our deadly duet
We're lost in a lullaby, slumbering away
Where sins remain hidden, but rarely they stay

It was only in my shadow that I'd finally found a friend
'Til the light that bound us let go, and the devil took my hand
As she closed my eyes, remind me once again
What's the dreamer's lie? "Every nightmare has an end"
(Beware the dreamer's lie) every nightmare has an end
(You'll be where the dreamers lie) some nightmares never end

I sleep like the dead, nonetheless I am lucid
If dreams have a meaning, perhaps I should tune in
To the signal that beckons, familiar it seems
Be silent, you might see yourself in its beams
A knife or a noose is with what you'll be met
If you try to play nice and stick out your neck

I thrive in the shadows, untrusting of light
Be warned if you join me, it's just for a bite
I'd rather be lost and lonely
'Cause friends aren't meant to last
Thought you finally got to know me
But you've only met the mask

Sad is my dream where the grass is quite green
Turned into a pasture of mesmerized sheep
I'd count them, but why should I bother?
In the end, they're all meant to be slaughtered

It was only in my shadow that I'd finally found a friend
'Til the light that bound us let go, and the devil took my hand
As she closed, my eyes remind me once again
What's the dreamer's lie? "Every nightmare has an end"
(Beware the dreamer's lie) every nightmare has an end
(You'll be where the dreamers lie) some nightmares never end
(Beware the dreamer's lie) every nightmare has an end
(You'll be where the dreamers lie) some nightmares never end