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- FAUSTIAN DREAMS BENEATH LAUDANUM SKIES -

A ghast from the last long winters past
And the howl of those wolves slip between the cracks
Demented, invented bloodshed and scented
With nightshade where tragic lovers lamented
I crave like a knave straight out of the grave
To the hem of the harlot as a vile slave
I�m wretched and dreaded a stake and methods
Composed to drive her garroted and vested

Nightmares beget of Laudanum affected
Morbid dreams of bodies left dissected

The cemetery clocks whines on arms of rusted iron
As specters and defectors come to gawk at me
Sorrowful songs echo from the lips of twisted sirens
Revilers and defilers come to spit their decree

The tomb on the moon cast a ghostly tune
Across the faceless instruments of my doom
Daedalus, so callous, spat in the eye of Zeus
When Icarus and I were consumed with malice
And then he doth fell spiraling to Hell
Like an angel cast from God�s own light, dispelled
Infection, rejection within subjection
I smote my brother for fittest selection

Nightmares beget of Laudanum affected
Morbid dreams of bodies left dissected

My devilment brain will never cease the endless reverb
As cases of faceless skulls laugh at my disgrace
But still I rise when I promised there would be no return
Come dawn I swallow the poison much to my distaste

Hissing scriptures of Faustian tormented
Mindless dreams of jaded skies molested
�Nightmares beget of Laudanum affected
Morbid dreams of bodies left dissected

I am sleepless and caustic
Wasted and bitterness
Pumping through these veins
When God denies
The devil provides
The road to the grave

Nightmares beget of Laudanum affected
Morbid dreams of bodies left dissected

The cemetery clocks whines on arms of rusted iron
As specters and defectors come to gawk at me
Sorrowful songs echo from the lips of twisted sirens
Revilers and defilers come to spit their decree

Hissing scriptures of Faustian tormented
Mindless dreams of jaded skies molested

My devilment brain will never cease the endless reverb
As cases of faceless skulls laugh at my disgrace
But still I rise when I promised there would be no return
Come dawn I swallow the poison much to my distaste

Hissing scriptures of Faustian tormented
Mindless dreams of jaded skies molested
�Nightmares beget of Laudanum affected
Morbid dreams of bodies left dissected

(c) 2017 Frank Green