Nightmares in the Waking State: Part II

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Caught in the wheel of fate A leap in the dark Lost to incompletion Living the part Exit strategies Smoke and mirrors In its shadow nothing escapes The piercing errors Off-guard Source unleashed Closed circuit dreaming Unbound Fear the beast Kept out of sight Transformed Mind besieged Course alteration Undone Sense decreased The faint pulse of light Delicate world of glass Under the skin Once sprung from a standstill Raging within Shapeless to the eye Cold emotion What will never fall to the ground Now set in motion [Lead: Stefanović] [Lead: Gardberg]

In the arms of recreation In the presence of defeat What is hanging in the balance An alliance incomplete A nightmare serving many masters The unreality that should not be, Now holding me against the power of endurance Where time and tide wait for no man The immortality that could not be, Now under lock and key Once the wheel has come full circle Transformation will take aim Massing up on the horizon To a new dawn laying claim To break a journey To stop the blood To quench a fire To stand the flood Chain of thought Never letting go Will not clear away until it’s gone Set ablaze Ever and again Sun and shadow are at daggers drawn [Lead: Stefanović/Gardberg/Stefanović/Gardberg]

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

[Lead: Gardberg] Running away Far from it all Lying in wait Yet riding for a fall The line of fire denied Exit through a sense of void inside The entering phase complete What lives another day Silence — triggering Tipping the scales An easy prey, Now being thrown to the wolves Here dies another day Guidance — withering Shadow prevails From sources stray, Its life it pulls No-man’s-land A monstrosity built on sand Battled thought Strength inhaled Roles reversed Change unveiled Focus caught Host exhaled Weakness cursed [Lead: Gardberg] [Lead: Gardberg] In the end when the unpleasant truth Comes crawling out of the woodwork Cherished illusions and attempted escapes Turn to gleams of light in the dirt

Sudden realness Cast in shadow Shifter in the sands Broken silence Torn agenda Slipping through my hands In wait Slowly turning The fear of fear itself Attached yet disconnected Here at the end of my rope An inescapable dream My guiding light At the root of this two-faced night An inescapable dream My inner sight In the dark where our worlds unite Time now freeze-framed Truth revalued Future yesterdays Cyclone chamber Nightmare sequence Falling out of grace Against better judgment I let the sea walls burst Crawling minefields blinded Forced to rush into extremes [Lead: Stefanović] [Lead: Gardberg]

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

On ghostlike fields Under a strange sky Cannot cross the void No matter how hard I try And so this nothing becomes My all (my fall?) Through which I have to crawl The curse that keeps on giving A fire without a flame The curse that keeps on giving A changing that stays the same Used skeleton key There’s no setting free Told to be forever Standing the test of time Will not let it ride Yet turning aside Innermost rain shadow reaching The end of the line [Lead: Gardberg/Stefanović/Gardberg]

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

You must trust the worst That may wait Is losing to this death The ending you swore to evade In such a defeat By making distance To this state called life You will see how nothing means nothing It came with paradox Could not be dealt with nor transformed Powers it held All you allowed yourself to lose So you try to see and explain How the world is twisting and turning You paint pictures in your head To make sense out of the senseless Chain connector

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

A darkness formed in broad daylight Relief and scare in one It fell exposed, yet unannounced A storm cloud chasing the sun Time and time again The ground gives way On the world now thrown Blind to what is feared The wretched seed Of the downfall sown All exits fastened from within A scarred design in chains To yield obedience to what is veiled A constant change of lanes [Lead: Stefanović]

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

[Lead: Gardberg] Brought back to the scene Of answers letting go A shift burning still With questions down below Through me, spiraling The storm that never passed In search of an end A quest from first to last In full blast With cold piercing nails Sunk into my world I am holding on for all I’m worth Once more reason fades Into a blinding light Far gone, taking heed The wisdom of hindsight And so, as I walk Into the afterglow I see signs of life Among the veils of woe With cold piercing nails Sunk into my world I am holding on for all I’m worth As time passes by Grip is losing out At a loss while waiting for rebirth [Lead: Gardberg] Pain is the sense of comfort Fear is the state of mind Born of the ghost in hiding Hope of a different kind [Lead: Gardberg]

At all hours of the day and night, We are one (we are one) Lost between here and forever Far away from time and space In a dream of now and never, I awake No source in sight The world is a vortex A ten-ton weight of nothing Black hole incarnate Turn the edge of fear Final goodbye? Heavy lies the crown Wound to heal the breach Seen with the mind’s eye Heavy lies the crown Gone through fire and water for a relief Self-medicate of darkly meditate Those dark clouds over your head Frustration, anger and hatred You know them so well by now

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025