Dead but Dreaming

from These Means Have No End by Royal Downfall

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"That is not dead that can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
- H. P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City

"While there’s still a world to win, our red dream means everything"
- McCarthy, Red Sleeping Beauty

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In the gallows by the willows, the rationale was set
What followed next was the time clock, and then the standard was met
Now as we walk through the strip malls, pushing shopping carts
It’s a logical extension to that gruesome start

With pillows and night gowns, an army asleep
Fists clenched in pockets, always dragging our feet
The living flesh is dreaming of days to come
Wide awake early morning, it won’t be long

You won’t even notice
You won’t feel the sting
We know our thing from lurking in the shadows

We’ll keep singing the same song on and on
We’ll keep stealing, lying and cheating
To see someone with all that wisdom
Did you, did you really kiss him?

I know you tremble, oh I know you shake your head in doubt
I know you lie awake in fear of what your sleep might bring
I know your dreams reveal a horror that you can not speak
In the mirror it’s all crumbling
I know you tremble, oh I know you shake your head in doubt
I know you lie awake in fear of what your sleep might bring
I know your dreams reveal a horror that you can not speak
Your time is nigh

You won’t even notice
You won’t feel the sting
We know our thing from lurking in the shadows

We’ll keep singing the same song on and on
We’ll keep stealing, lying and cheating
To see someone with all that wisdom
Did you, did you really kiss him?

Dead but dreaming

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from These Means Have No End, released December 3, 2007

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† 2014

Dead but dreaming.

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