Nightmares

Music 1982 • Lyrics 1982, rev. 2018

Moonlight, water's side
The vision of an owl in flight
Caught between the sunset
And the newness of the dawn

Darkness fosters silent dreams
A sacrifice marks the ancient scene
Of living landscapes touching soul
Of gems forgotten, lost

I see you
Walking through cold houses
Fear filled
Stumbling through the dark
I see you
Running through dead cities
Corpse filled
Rat infested, diseased

Shadows coalesce retaining
Images red with blood remaining
Buried deep a living scream
A shattered piece of life

The lonely dreamer reaching out
Made captive, her pervasive doubt
Crying from the emptiness
Seeking death-defying light

I give to you my hand
My love, my soul, my spirit
All the warmth that's mine to give
I cross the distance set by nightfall
I will find you
I am with you in your dreams

I will hold you
I will shield you from the storm
You will know my arms around you
I will give you
All a friend and lover has to give
In this nightmare
I am with you

Windswept nights of amber grey
Passage old leads dream astray
Labyrinths moving, mirroring
Uncertainty and cost

Seeking but a moment's peace
Voices call out, phantoms speak
Demanding retribution
For a crime they never name

The nightmare chorus hurts the ear
Nightmare screeams
For the broken heart to give up hope
I bring a song
To light the dawn
Rejoin the fragments of a beauty that is whole

Night dissolves to meet the day
The rope, a noose, in sunlight frays
Beauty can free beauty
If it is given half a chance

Fingers touching, close embrace
Love does end harsh midnight race
The loved one of the soul appears
And the two are one in dance

I give to you my hand
My love, my soul, my spirit
All the warmth that's mine to give
I cross the distance set by nightfall
I will find you
I am with you in your dreams

I will hold you
I will shield you from the storm
You will know my arms around you
I will give you
All a friend and lover has to give
In this nightmare
I am with you

Nightmares © K.C. Peterson, 1982/2018