“NIGHTMARES”
(N. MICHALAK)

Drifting off into darkness
No escape from fear
Chaotic thoughts in distress

Your thoughts corrupt
Mortality is near
Your life to be disrupt

Nothing real
Nothing to feel
Your life it will steal

(Chorus)
  Turned inside out
  Can’t hear you shout

  Falling out-of-control
  Can’t fill the hole

  Destroying yourself
  Don’t care what you felt
  What you see is false
  Don’t care what you’ve lost

Visions of fear fill your mind
Your without a savior
And you are running out of time

Your worst fears are brought to life
You feel like a loser
Can you win this deadly strife

Is there any waking is what you think
Any morning from this night
But you can’t awake from this final sleep

The sandman bleeds you of your mortality
He will blind your sight
And fuels the fire of your insanity

(Chorus)
  Turned inside out
  Can’t hear you shout

  Falling out-of-control
  Can’t fill the hole

  Destroying yourself
  Don’t care what you felt
  What you see is false
  Don’t care what you’ve lost

  It is the source of all your fears
  You are trapped within these nightmares

Warped specters in your mind
All senses shattered
No havens will you ever find

Your wounds shall never mend
But it won’t matter
‘Cause now your suffering will end

(Chorus)
  Reality becomes a dream
  Never hears you scream

  You are but a slave
  You cannot be saved

  Destroying yourself
  Don’t care what you felt
  What you see is false
  Don’t care what you’ve lost

  It is the source of all your fears
  You are trapped within these nightmares

  Robbed of your cares
  Drowned in your tears
  Overhelmed by your fears
  Just another victim of these nightmares

What's this one about?  Drugs.  Plain and simple.  How drugs distort your preception of reality, breakdown the world around you until nothing is familiar, and once you've fallen this far into this pit, it's simply a matter of time.  "The sandman bleeds you of your mortality?"  Think of "sand" as "cocaine", and the "sandman" is the "drug dealer".  He tempts you with more drugs & "fuels the fire of your insanity" by presenting you with something to fuel your addiction, which is the source of your insanity.  No, I do not speak of any sort of personal experience, I'm FAR too intelligent to even CONSIDER such foolish & stupid behavior.  I've just listened to "Master of Puppets" enough times to fuel my creativity.  Also, this song was originally written as, more or less, my take on "Enter Sandman".  I like these lyrics MUCH better because of their deeper metaphoric meaning.
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