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
Then 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
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 the 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 (then Dahlia woke)
In clinging sheets (in clinging sheets)
Her fever broke (her fever broke)
But the dream remained (but the dream remained)
She couldn't forget him (she couldn't forget him)
Though a season passed (though a season passed)
She wouldn't let it (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 exist
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