[Verse 1] A kingdom of the old, a long time ago Suffered from the strangest of curses to the mind and soul A plague of awful vivid nightmares and visions From the youngest infant to the white haired and brittle
Citizens suffered every night through images Of unspeakable evil things up until their bitter end Mass suicide, even sacrilegious worship Desperate people attacking travelers and merchants
Hoping a foreign remedy they hadn't heard of In his tower the king was panicking and nervous He had sent his best men to try retrieve a cure A priestess or a sorcerer able heal the pure
He'd waited seven days without as much a word Paranoid, thinking that: "what if they do not return?" Then that evening a stranger sought his audience A stranger cloaked in grey who claimed he brought 'em all a gift
[Verse 2] It was a small box, jet black and cold to touch Carved out of a material akin to stone or such He told him it was used in controlling dreams With it, the king could stop the evil from roaming free
The desperate king accepted the gift of the visitor Who left immediately, leaving just the king to wish it works He had doubts however - he ought to try the thing So during night he laid in bed in safe and silent sleep
Escaping violent screams, excruciating dreams In the morning, he announced the first good news in weeks The king was now a hero and he kept himself in practice Trying to manage his citizens dreams to match with
Their fantasies of power, currency and pleasure The more he tore into their minds he saw greed and devils A feeble mental state and a deathly image A year later he became to hate the wretched city
[Verse 3] He despised the people, filthy dirty things Kept to his studies of dream magic, building, learning skills And still improving now engrossed in it more than ever Growing farther apart from the world, torn and severed
He spent whole weeks alone, most his time asleep The isolation slowly began to show a violent streak He would grind his teeth and claw his nails against the wall The rumors told he even bit his servants with the strength of dogs
The people came to fear the king as years passed Whispers of him having lost his mind were now clear as glass The nightmares had returned,spread at steady pace Some even reckoned he was dead but definitely yet replaced
Oh, but in the tower the king was up and well Stretching his seven wings and climbing out a rotten shell Rotating two heads, adorned by their forty eyes In which unspeakable horror formed and immortalized