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I recall one sunny evening, I was just ten years old
I went to walk down into the town, there was one particular road
Not more than a hundred yards, but somehow I could not reach its end
And, crystallised in my memory, it seems like a portent of this dark dream

With strange and total clarity of the threshold of sleep
The return of a memory I did not choose to keep
The old familiar struggle to open my eyes wide
But it's already far too late, and helplessly I slide into this dark dream

The moon peers in my window, silhouetted 'gainst her light
I see the coming horsemen, whose world is of the night
And all my brain is fever 'though my blood is running cold
As grace and peace and charity are forever set on hold in this dark dream

Temptation canters to my side, she rides a dappled mare
She smiles down at me and transfixed I simply stand and stare
She steps down and draws the curtains, to deny my chance of dawn
Her lips are hot against my soul, but her heart I know is full of scorn in this dark dream

I run at last into a church, and stumble across cracked stone
Past the watching congregation to the altar rail alone
But the holy blood that saves me, transubstantiates to wine
my mouth is furred, my brain is dull I am still in the confines of this dark dream

So shake me by my shoulders, shout my name until
I yield you my permission, with the last flicker of my will
Pull the slates from off this roof, break the ceiling and come down
Drag me from this poisoned sleep, lift me or I'll drown in this dark dream

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