A Dream in Red Lyrics

Never's it been within my nature to pray

But in the dark of my bed at night things have changed

I once humbly trust'd my eyes closed

But now my spirit, ill-composed

with reverential resignation and no wish conceives

A dream in red, red

I picture you in red, red

I can see you in red, read like a story

With a desolate end

Last night I prayed aloud in anguish and agony

Brought about by the fiendish crowd

of the shapes and the thoughts

of the nightmares that torture me

I dream in red, red

I picture you in red, red

I know you in red, read like the story

And you know the end

A lurid light, a waiting throng

A sense of intolerable wrong

And behind the gate

those fueled by the pains of sleep

won't be held prisoner for long

Bled together, the night's dismays

Sadden and stun each coming day

And sleep, the wide blessing, has become a promise to me

A promise of the worst calamity

On the third night my own loud scream

Waked me from the fiendish dream