Discovery of the darkest kind Outside our world of space and time Down the rabbit hole I go Things human minds should never know Eyes now wide open to see things unseen Hide in the shadows Try not to scream Reference to a monster The Haunter of the Dark Gaze in shining crystal summons creature forth The creature holds all knowledge demands blood sacrifice From black gulf of chaos the crystal stone invites Eyes now wide open Dark things of dream No place to hide from this evil fiend Summoned, I called it by a twist of fate There in the church for me it lies in wait It lives among the shadows In the dark of night The Haunter seeks its refuge from the rays of light I fear the evening twilight, the sky awash in black The Haunter stalks me like its prey, ready to attack From my attic window in fear I count the hours, I watch the orange sun set on the church's spire The street lights ablaze around my building guard May they give protection from unholy fire The Shining Trapezohedron, a crystal window on all time and space Created on dark Yuggoth long before the Old Ones came Brought to earth many aeons ago Pa**ed through the centuries from tribe to tribe Serpent men of Valusia to the humans of Lemuria
Crossing strange lands and stranger seas The Shining Trapezohedron, a crystal window on all time and space Created on dark Yuggoth long before the Old Ones came Lost with Atlantis, then retrieved from the sea Possessed by a Pharaoh, this evil seed Asleep in the ruins, its temple confined then dug from the sand to again curse mankind I read it in the papers, fear grows on Federal Hill The local superstitions intensify in build Rumor, ghostly sounds from the church unseen Banish the spirits that haunt townfolk's dreams They say something watches at entry of church It waits for night's cover to venture forth It lives among the shadows In the dark of night The Haunter seeks its refuge from the rays of light I fear the evening twilight, the sky awash in black The Haunter stalks me like its prey, ready to attack From my attic window, in fear I count the hours I watch the orange sun set on the church's spire The street lights ablaze around my building guard May they give protection from unholy fire I feel remorse My actions set this thing free Must capture the crystal and hide, where no man can see Can I find the courage to banish the beast? A morbid longing, to the crystal stone's deceit