2003 Masks and Nightmares

Steam on the water

Sparks on the floor

The glove and the machete

Both knocking at your door

They buried the name, they boarded the street

Fed all the children a chemical sleep

No chalk on the wall, no story in town

No claw in the dark if the fear stays down

Then something heavy starts dragging the floor

Mud on the carpet, blood at the door

One dream lights up and the whole block knows

You can’t kill the rumor when the rumor grows

Count the cuts

Count the sheep

One brings blood

One permanent sleep

Masks and nightmares

Hands in the dark

One hunts you sleeping

One carves your heart

Masks and nightmares

No place to hide

If the dream doesn’t kill you

The lake will take you alive

Rave lights spinning on a cornfield floor

Bass drops hard and the bodies drop more

The dream man schemes, the dead man beats

Two old legends on a one-way street

Glove wants silence, machete wants bone

Neither one knows how to leave it alone

Pills in the gutter, sirens in bloom

Sleep gets slaughtered in a locked white room

Hide the name

Dose the brain

Fear breaks out

And brings on pain

Masks and nightmares

Hands in the dark

One hunts you sleeping

One carves your heart

Masks and nightmares

No place to hide

If the dream doesn’t kill you

The lake will take you alive

He awoken a killer to harvest your fear

But the killer kept killing till nothing was clear

The plan ate itself — you don’t own the blade

When you wake what you built, it comes back depraved

Masks and nightmares

Hands in the dark

One hunts you sleeping

One carves your heart

Masks and nightmares

No crown, no peace

One head laughing

As another climbs from the deep