Nightmare Epiphany

Dalia floated like chimney ash up into a shredded sky

It was raining acidic trash on the moon there crawled a fly

Burning Teslas were driving by

At their wheels evil clowns

And from the darkness there came a howling

And somehow it called her down

Our nightmare

Our nightmare epiphany

Our bad dreams

Our nightmare epiphany

Then she saw him howling fury as he struggled with elastic chains

And his parents smiled coldly as they shackled him down again

There were leeches that were spiders and spiders that were flies

The very stones who were his teachers laughed in mockery

Then sweet Dahlia reached out to him

And she tried to pull him free

But fallen angels that ran the place enfolded him with monstrous glee

Our nightmare

Our nightmare epiphany

Our bad dreams

Our nightmare epiphany

Our nightmare

Our nightmare epiphany

Our bad dreams

Our nightmare epiphany

Then Dahlia woke in clinging sheets

Her fever broke but the dream remained

She couldn't forget it though a season passed

She wouldn't let it slip away

And then she met him down at the mall on the edge of the parking lot

Seems that he went to her school

She was popular, he was not

I remember (he told her then)

I'll never forget the dream of chains

You tried to help me tried to descend offered me something besides my pain

And now I've found you in this concrete world

That only fools believe is real see I knew that you belonged to me

In my nightmare epiphany

Our nightmare

Our nightmare epiphany

Our bad dreams

Our nightmare epiphany

Our nightmare

Our nightmare epiphany

Our bad dreams

Our nightmare epiphany