As I lay down dying, a floor for my bed And the bundle of newspaper under my head I dreamed a dream, as strange as could be Concerning myself and somebody like me
We were in some city, the stranger and me The houses were open and the streets empty The windows were bare and the pavements dirty I asked where I was, my companion ignored me
We entered a graveyard and searched for a tombstone The graves were disturbed and the coffins wide open And the corpses were rotten, yet each one was living Their eyes were alive with maggots crawling
I cried out in fear but my voice had left me My legs were deformed yet I moved quite freely My head was on fire yet my hands were icy And everywhere light yet darkness engulfed me
I managed to scream and woke from my slumber I thought of my dream and lay there and wondered Where had I been? What could it mean? It was dark in the death room as I slithered under