I'm falling asleep again
I'm slipping between
The spurious and the real
The silence surrounds me now
Except for the turning page I fail to read
I feel myself drifting away
The moments of the day float in my head
Reaching out to switch off the light
The darkness and the night engulf my bed
Nightmare it's my nightmare
Not just dream - mare. it's my nightmare
Diaphanous shroud of sleep
Swallows my soul so deep into the core
A journey of sound and light
A labyrinthine flight of endless doors
I can hear him laughing at me
And suddenly the doors around me lock
The ominous walls contract
A silent scream entrapped inside a box
Nightmare it's my nightmare
Not just dream - mare. it's my nightmare
I can hear the circus pa**
My window in the night
Such an eerie sight
All of them there,
So grotesque beyond compare
Garish, garb and twisted
Captured by the sound
Of the laughing clown
I go floating down the stairs
And fall into the path
Of the stilted man
But he just looms over
Looking around
I am lifted from the ground
By the tattooed strong-man
Floating down into the crowd
Amidst the strange parade
There's a harlequin
Face black as coal
As he juggles human souls
Trapped in little boxes
What am I to do, if I only knew
I just can't get through to them
I just don't want to join
Their circus now
But the music draws me into a trance
Follow us come join our dance
Come and join our circus
The morning broke
As I awoke
A sleeping on the stair
The coldness gripped my body
Had my body been elsewhere!
Was I just somnambulating!
Was I really there!
A sinister twist of fate
Redemption arrived too late
To make me see
My life has been torn in two
There's nothing that I can do
To set me free
If they go marauding at night
I never seem to fight
Against the spell
Now I feel full of regret
For I have taken part
In this as well
Nightmare it's my nightmare
Not just dream - mare. it's my nightmare
Nightmare it's my nightmare
Not just dream - mare. it's my nightmare
Nightmare it's my nightmare
Not just dream - mare. it's my nightmare