Witches dance and werewolves howlVampires bite and ogres growlGhosts and ghouls come into the lightJoining the fun on Halloween night Children line up to trick or treatLaughing and skipping down the streetBehind each mask, who will it beTake off the mask and who will you see One day each year the two worlds meetMonsters come…
We celebrate normality Steady people with steady jobs Steady opinions, steady habits Steady people make the world go round The abnormal, now, that’s different Ones who need looking after Ones who can’t cope Who don’t conform, don’t fit Who march to their own beat Sing their own song Troubling, inexplicable, antisocial It’s just too hard…
Night is falling Light the candles one by one Stoke up the fire Keep the dark at bay Out there is the unknown The borders are thin on nights like this And who knows what waits Out in the foggy black At the end of the track In the unknown forest What lies in wait…
They drew great pictures on the ground Carefully charted, calculated accurately Too large for mortal eyes to understand But these were not for humdrum men These were for the gods Looking down from their lofty thrones on men like insects scurrying about decorating the earth to show the divine that they understood, they were listening.…
Galloping horses drag an open carriage Full of bright balloons eager to escape their tethers Streamers float behind, struggling to keep up No one is driving, no one in control This party is going its own way Heedless of who is trampled under foot Careening towards the edge of a cliff Pop the champagne and…
You know it’s not real But it’s a thought you don’t want to see So you tell yourself, loudly That he loves you, that he cares That your life together has not been wasted You shout it loud To drown the truth that will break you Once you cannot avoid it any longer He has…
Come to the river of Lethe These are the waters of unknowing Here you may lay down your life’s burdens All the suffering that existence brings Only sip from the river, just a drop And embrace the sweetness of oblivion Enter Eternity renewed Innocent as one new born Or turn from Lethe and come to…
Up the beanstalk and down the rabbit hole It’s time to journey to the other side Into the wardrobe and over the rainbow It’s time to voyage into magic Time to find our destiny To be transformed into who we’re meant to be Until we come home, out of the darkness We’ve vanquished dragons and…
Young, invulnerable, cast in iron Bad things happen to others But even iron rusts And bad things come to everyone Stealing strength and focus Leaving shattered pieces behind The words I wasted in my youth have fled from me I chase them down with difficulty Stitching together clumsy sentences Already straining at the seams Ideas…
Choose peace, said the child As she stood among the soldiers, ethereal and delicate With her hands full of flowers Choose peace while you can They’re full of reasons, the soldiers They’re defending themselves their homes, loved ones, way of life and besides, the enemy is out there and he’ll get you if you don’t…
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