Sabbat - Do Dark Horses Dream Of Nightmares? lyrics
rate meStanding on a strange shore-<br />
This desolate coastline,<br />
It offers cold comfort.<br />
Very little more than the sky <br />
For a blanket<br />
The earth for my bed.<br />
<br />
[THE SISTERS OF WYRD:]<br />
"Thethreads upon the loom of life<br />
Have foreordained your coming here,<br />
So weep not mannikin of mankind<br />
Dry your worthless puppet-tears."<br />
<br />
Unanswered questions-<br />
How they play on my mind,<br />
Now that darkness is falling and<br />
Still there's no sign of my guide.<br />
<br />
Either I have been betrayed-<br />
They have left me to die,<br />
Or worse still at this moment he lies-<br />
An unwitting victim by brigands attacked,<br />
Left naked and dead with a knife<br />
In his back.<br />
<br />
Childhood terrors return to me now,<br />
From the rand stench of fear in<br />
The sweat on my brow.<br />
Deciet and despair are to me<br />
Kith and kin,<br />
Seduced into slumber-<br />
My nightmare begins.<br />
<br />
"Welcome - welcome to my domain,<br />
I have been biding my time.<br />
Watching and waiting -<br />
But now you are mine.<br />
<br />
Weaving the web that entwines you,<br />
Like a puppet you play on the end<br />
Of your strings 'till the end of<br />
Your days."<br />
<br />
Daylight flees as night gives chase<br />
I'm held in panics dank embrace,<br />
I smother in his cold caress - <br />
The sum of all my worthlessness.<br />
I have been told to thank the Lord<br />
For all that He will send,<br />
But if death should come to meet me -<br />
Must I greet him as a friend?<br />
<br />
Now I see that this quest is<br />
A test of my fidelity - <br />
Has God forsaken me?<br />
When maddness sings his lullaby a<br />
<br />
Nightmare filled with unknown things -<br />
To cast aspersion on my sanity.<br />
<br />
Faith starts to flounder in<br />
A mind torn apart,<br />
My thoughts move in time with<br />
The beat of my heart<br />
A creature of habit<br />
I make easy prey,<br />
Cross faith and fire cannot<br />
Hold at bay the beast that<br />
Pursues me -<br />
The end drawing near.<br />
My soul keeps no secrets -<br />
He knows what I fear.<br />
<br />
Flying so high on the wings <br />
Of a dream,<br />
Over mountain and forest -<br />
'cross river and stream.<br />
While the creatures that feed<br />
<br />
Off the doubts I invent<br />
Await my arrival with evil intent.<br />
<br />
"Welcome - welcome to my domain,<br />
I have been biding my time.<br />
Watching and waiting -<br />
But now you are mine.<br />
Weaving the web that entwines you,<br />
Like a puppet you play on the end<br />
Of your strings 'till the end of<br />
Your days."<br />
<br />
So in that twilight world that<br />
Lies amidst life and death I dream,<br />
And writhe in fitful slumber no-one<br />
Hears mjy silent screams.<br />
Except the horses head that stares<br />
With black and lifeless eyes,<br />
<br />
Atop its totem glaring as it mocks<br />
My helpless cries.<br />
<br />
Now I see that this quest is<br />
A test of my fidelity - <br />
Has God forsaken me?<br />
When maddness sings his lullaby a<br />
Nightmare filled with unknown things -<br />
To cast aspersion on my sanity.<br />
<br />
Shapeless form surround me<br />
Casting shadows in the night,<br />
I feel their breath upon me-<br />
Catch their faces in the light.<br />
Somnambulistic hunters come<br />
To prey upon my fears -<br />
As peals of psycopathic laughter<br />
Echo in my ears.<br />
<br />
Startled I waken from my <br />
Death-like sleep,<br />
Though fearful and shaken<br />
I crawl to my feet.<br />
Still my memories taunt me -<br />
Like ghosts they appear,<br />
Forever to haunt me when<br />
Darkness draws near.<br />
<br />
"Welcome - welcome to my domain,<br />
I have been biding my time.<br />
Watching and waiting -<br />
But now you are mine.<br />
Weaving the web that entwines you,<br />
Like a puppet you play on the end<br />
Of your strings 'till the end of<br />
Your days."<br />
<br />
Then fleeing from the terrors<br />
At the night before I leave,<br />
<br />
The remenants of reality behind<br />
Me 'neath the trees.<br />
Waking in the light of dawn I<br />
Pray that God will send -<br />
His wisdom now to guide me<br />
Through this night-time without end.<br />
<br />
Now I see that this quest is <br />
A test of my fidelity-<br />
Has God forsaken me?<br />
When madness sings his lullaby a<br />
Nightmare filled with unknown things -<br />
To cast aspersion on my sanity.
