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