By Robert Bruce
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
Time swifts back upon my bed
As the undead walk inside my head
Don't you hear the ghostly calls
Transcending from beyond the walls
They have shown in this life I've known
There's another world beyond our own
Twisted, broken, shadow land
Connected by paths of emerald sand
Have you seen the things I've seen
Been visited by phantom beings
Haunted by those in hooded cloaks
Or been in the seance to invoke
Many who see don't believe
Because they chose naivety
Don't you know that ghosts exist
Do you believe in exorcists
Don't you know that demons live
Do you live a life of sin
Don't you know they'll come for you,
Depending on the path you choose
Don't you hear the ghostly calls
Or do you hide behind your walls
Spiraling back into my past
The nightmare upon my mind is cast
Remembering a time so long ago
When death took me into its fold
As a young child awakening
Face in a pillow suffocating
All my senses were there to me
But I couldn't move and I couldn't breathe
As I died I realized
There was a reason I was paralyzed
Inside that room I was not alone
There was a presence neither flesh or bone
Even though I could not see
I felt its evil beyond imagining
More afraid of it than death
I broke its hold upon my flesh
Can't you hear the child's screams
Can you see horrific dreams
Can't you feel your death's embrace
Can you follow the path of Grace
Can't you see the world I see
Can you see the reality
Do you remember a time like this
Or is it locked away in your subconsciousness
As a child, I heard ghostly calls
Striping insanity from my walls
A female voice would come to me
And say my name repeatedly
Death's temptation from the grave
Spoken word my life did fade
Slowly forget as the years go by
Plagued by nightmares, I wonder why
Dreams of a car flipping end to end
Screams of a woman is deafening
When I awake, I'm remembering
The explosions of pain and dismembering
Then one day a vision forms
Inside my mind a dream was born
I drove a car that's now destroyed
A woman's inside like a broken toy
Blood goes cold as I realized
Her face is too bloody to recognize
Looking through my horrified eyes
Somehow I loved this woman who died
Turning to me upon deaths embrace
She calls my name out to space
It's the voice of my childhood ghost
I reach for her but the vision is lost
Won't you step up through the gate
Will you face up to your fate
Won't you hear their ghostly calls
Transcending from beyond the walls
Won't you enter the shadow land
And walk upon the emerald sand
Have you seen what I have seen
Or do you choose to be naive
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
Time swifts back upon my bed
As the undead walk inside my head
Don't you hear the ghostly calls
Transcending from beyond the walls
They have shown in this life I've known
There's another world beyond our own
Twisted, broken, shadow land
Connected by paths of emerald sand
Have you seen the things I've seen
Been visited by phantom beings
Haunted by those in hooded cloaks
Or been in the seance to invoke
Many who see don't believe
Because they chose naivety
Don't you know that ghosts exist
Do you believe in exorcists
Don't you know that demons live
Do you live a life of sin
Don't you know they'll come for you,
Depending on the path you choose
Don't you hear the ghostly calls
Or do you hide behind your walls
Spiraling back into my past
The nightmare upon my mind is cast
Remembering a time so long ago
When death took me into its fold
As a young child awakening
Face in a pillow suffocating
All my senses were there to me
But I couldn't move and I couldn't breathe
As I died I realized
There was a reason I was paralyzed
Inside that room I was not alone
There was a presence neither flesh or bone
Even though I could not see
I felt its evil beyond imagining
More afraid of it than death
I broke its hold upon my flesh
Can't you hear the child's screams
Can you see horrific dreams
Can't you feel your death's embrace
Can you follow the path of Grace
Can't you see the world I see
Can you see the reality
Do you remember a time like this
Or is it locked away in your subconsciousness
As a child, I heard ghostly calls
Striping insanity from my walls
A female voice would come to me
And say my name repeatedly
Death's temptation from the grave
Spoken word my life did fade
Slowly forget as the years go by
Plagued by nightmares, I wonder why
Dreams of a car flipping end to end
Screams of a woman is deafening
When I awake, I'm remembering
The explosions of pain and dismembering
Then one day a vision forms
Inside my mind a dream was born
I drove a car that's now destroyed
A woman's inside like a broken toy
Blood goes cold as I realized
Her face is too bloody to recognize
Looking through my horrified eyes
Somehow I loved this woman who died
Turning to me upon deaths embrace
She calls my name out to space
It's the voice of my childhood ghost
I reach for her but the vision is lost
Won't you step up through the gate
Will you face up to your fate
Won't you hear their ghostly calls
Transcending from beyond the walls
Won't you enter the shadow land
And walk upon the emerald sand
Have you seen what I have seen
Or do you choose to be naive
