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Nightmare

by Rob Lock

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1.
Lamentation 02:31
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Sink down into the dark Look deep into your heart Throw open wide the doors Call to your soul Is it lonely and frightened? Confused tormented? Do your walls keep twisting? Are you all alone deep down?
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Monster 03:12
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Deep within the house of your mind Face of horror, staring Familiar yet twisted and wrong Pain embodied, monster Monster Mutant Spectre My horror Monarch of the psyche's unclean A toxic fever Pestilence within me My plague, my predator Monster Demon Predator Alien Deep within your mind sits a child Deformed and demented And like a coward you flee And leave it stranded And when the child returns Having chased you down It comes to you as a beast As a mirror profound Deep within the core of your soul A sickness festers And then erupts as a demon To break your barriers You can choose to keep running from Your own psyche's warning You can be a coward and run And the face will haunt you, staring That's your face, your true face That's your face, your real face Haunting you between the daylight Screaming Monster
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Puzzle 02:10
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Pieces floating Shifting Taunting me The more I want to solve it The deeper I sink There must be sense to this madness There must be a rhyme There must be an answer waiting There must be a reason Proof Pattern Logic System As I chase the rabbit of solution I tighten the vice There must be sense to this madness There must be solution Certainty, puzzle completion There must be a reason How can you prove that hell is not real? How can you they're not coming to drag you down? You will never know
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Slave 03:30
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Master Master's chained your soul Wrapped tightly in your pain You choke and beg and crawl And try to get away Choked Thrown down You cannot control or predict any of it Whipped Struck down Into submission Fighting to free yourself Fighting your soul Master You cannot escape Run then turn around: he's there And hide, but her stare Reaches into everything Cry out for Freedom from this endless reign of pain and terror Beg, plead, crawl In submission You are your own master and your own slave It is your desire to be free from the world That makes you a slave of yourself Set yourself free Heed my words: That which you accept you will transcend Master I'm bound to you My own fate My slave
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Nerve Endings 03:05
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Pain Pleasure Dream of horrid torture Whipped, choked or constricted Dream of deviant sex games Feel so weak Out of control Explore your world Listen to your nightmares You have been so scared To explore sensation But your nightmare won't let you rest Break out from your chains Explore your world Choose your poison Wake your body up Pain Pleasure Agony Ecstasy Be here now
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Sickness 05:14
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Light Day will end And come again There is a sickness inside you And it is brooding, awaiting it's time No one escapes the madness, the darkness It will enshroud your mind There is a sickness in everyone Warping your thoughts, predicting disaster Interrupted by moments of calm Then returned to the slaughter Your memory Changes your life Into a farce Of failure Anxiety Turns tomorrow Into a hell Sickness will rise again Wait it out Night too will end There is a sickness inside you It is growing, biding its time No one escapes the madness It will engulf There is a sickness inside you All peace is temporary There is a sickness within It will bloom Sickness, it festers Sickness, it waits for you Inescapable, the darkness Horror will rise And claim your soul
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Hypnosis 02:07
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Nightmare 04:31
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Spiralling through the same thoughts again You wonder when you will next find rest Your life's a nightmare of recursive hatred You die to wake from it Dragged from one place to the next You dream of finding some form of acceptance But there are only more tunnels and dead ends Where is the light the transcendence? Your life's a nightmare you can't wake up from Wake up Enter the nightmare Go deeper into its core Turn, face the nightmare Be hunted no more Wake up Turn, face the middle Enter the core Look straight at your fear Be the hunted no more Stare at the horror Embrace the core Accept the challenge Be a coward no more To wake up is to stop wanting to wake up There is no real and unreal To wake up is to stop wanting to wake up Turn and face your nightmare Your self Wake up
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Anima 04:08
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Anima beneath the veil Enemy, in me she dwells Locked away within my hell Face below the water Growing up with me side by side A shape among the shadows The monster beneath the bed The evil lurking in hollows She is the jester within my mind She is the lust, the sadist inside The black widow spider The god of below The face in the water The fangs begin to show Anima I love you so Enemy I hate you so Divide up the camps for war Arm yourself tonight Repress Know what you are not and know what you are not you need to fight Take up arms tonight She is the prisoner within my mind She is my other, bound and predefined Deviate, liberate, cross the battlefield, embrace Rage Rage against your chains Anima Anima beneath the veil Anima below the water Anima within my hell I call to thee Enemy of mine no more Unity within my core Anima beneath the veil Come, come, join me Anima in me Anima be free Be free
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Labyrinth 04:22
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Lost now within a maze And prey to a stalker Swear you can smell it somewhere Lost in the labyrinth No clue how you got here Swear you can hear its breath In the labyrinth of self You'll never find your way out of here The walls keep twisting, turning Endless doorways, endless fear Trapped within a tomb of programmed reactions I'm nothing but a program And I'm programmed to hunt myself Pray for release Pray for a way out Your prey to the beast There's no escape The beast is you You'll never find your way out of here Do you know the way out?
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Flame 04:36
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Flame Flame from the void Look for the flame inside Look for the flame in your heart Strength Strength that hides Look for the strength inside Look for the strength in your soul Keep the fire alive Born in the depths of time Your duty Care Care for the flame inside Tend Tend to the flame in them Add to the fire keep it burning Unto the very last breath When all is nothingness When all is total darkness When all is oblivion Witness the flame reborn Keep the fire alive Born in the depths of time Your duty Burn Through the ages life has thrived From jungle to civilisation We are gods, the proud torch bearers The essence, the seed of creation From the era pass the flame Onwards, onto the children Teach them that pain must be faced Author reincarnation Through the ages life has thrived Emerging from star destruction We are the meaning, the spark The miracle of creation
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Odyssey 07:35
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One rule there is Any one of the ghosts you let approach the blood Will speak the truth to you Anyone you refuse Will turn and fade away And with those words The awesome shade Strode back to the House of Death The horrible whirlpool gulping the sea surge down And when she spewed it up Her churning depths would seethe and heath Showering down, soaking both peaks at once She swallowed the sea surge her gaping maw The whole abyss lay bare And the rocks around her roared Ashen terror gripped the men Reason Cunning Rationality Knowledge Domination Me Hoisting high that glowing stake with its stabbing point Straight into the monster's eye they rammed it hard They seized the stake with its fiery tip and bored it round and round in the giant's eye Twisting faster, never stopping 'Till blood came boiling up around that smoking shaft And the broiling eyeball burst And its crackling roots blazed and hissed So the eye of the Cyclops sizzled round that stake (nobody) Arrogance called human reason They all believe in their dominion That the monsters could be defeated That their reason could conquer everything in the world Reason will never win the fight It creates the creatures it wars with Reason will never win the battle It creates the demon's it wars with And gives birth to Hell Behind sense the nightmare awaits Arrogance called human reason Due to sense the nightmare exists Sense itself creates the demon Nobody's tricked me Nobody's killing me Reason Rationality Domination
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Lamentation Redux 02:55
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Reawaken Open your eyes and see Rise from the darkness Call to the world I'm frightened and lonely I feel this with clarity But somewhere within the deep Strength burns in me Lament for the sadness Lament for the struggle But when we face the pain We learn to go on Share what you've seen Feed their flame Help them to face their pain And you won't be alone.

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A musical exploration of nightmare itself, this album is a bizarre, progressive, psychedelic descent into the unconscious mind. Extreme metal drumming, crazy riffs and aggressive vocals are interrupted by moments of odd beauty, spaciousness, hypnotic patterns and other mystical detours. The lyrics encounter monsters, unsolvable puzzles and mazes, dark parts of the self, strange and twisting journeys, but also a deep inner flame that feels very, very old and very important. Strap yourself in and enjoy the ride!

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released December 4, 2016

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Rob Lock Bristol, UK

Rob Lock is a solo musical artist and music therapist in training. He uses several arrangements including solo piano, rock and metal setups, and orchestra. He likes to explore psychological subject matter, at times dark and at times uplifting.
He is currently focusing on solo piano material. ... more

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