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Behind The Wall Of Sleep Lyrics
Visions cupped within a flower
Deadly petals with strange power
Faces shine a deadly smile
Look upon you at your trial
Chill and numbs from head to toe
Icy sun with frosty glow
Words that grow read to your sorrow?
Words that grow read no tomorrow?
Feel your spirit rise with the breeze
Feel your body falling to its knees
Sleeping wall of remorse
Turns your body to a corpse
Turns your body to a corpse
Turns your body to a corpse
Sleeping wall of remorse
Turns your body to a corpse
Now from darkness, there springs light
Wall of Sleep is cool and bright
Wall of Sleep is lying broken
Sun shines in, you have awoken
Deadly petals with strange power
Faces shine a deadly smile
Look upon you at your trial
Icy sun with frosty glow
Words that grow read to your sorrow?
Words that grow read no tomorrow?
Feel your body falling to its knees
Sleeping wall of remorse
Turns your body to a corpse
Turns your body to a corpse
Turns your body to a corpse
Sleeping wall of remorse
Turns your body to a corpse
Wall of Sleep is cool and bright
Wall of Sleep is lying broken
Sun shines in, you have awoken
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It is based on Lovecraft's Story. It is a bizarre tale about aliens and consciousness etc. Read it. But also, knowing our spaced out Sabbath boys, they mave have likened the experience of the protagonist to that of opium taking.
@SABRACADABRA If I didn't have the complete collection, I'd berate you for not specifying which Lovecraft story
@SABRACADABRA If I didn't have the complete collection, I'd berate you for not specifying which Lovecraft story
I don't think its so not about recreational drugs as it seems more of a passage into the spirit world and the return back. Too easy for straight and narrows to label everything they don't understand as druggie bable.
@lyriacist I think it's combining drugs with the experience of waking up from a bad dream
@lyriacist I think it's combining drugs with the experience of waking up from a bad dream
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Thank you, finally someone who gets it.
Thank you, finally someone who gets it.
no, that was H.P. Lovecraft, it's called Beyond the Wall of Sleep, he also wrote The Call of the Ctulu which Metallica based the song off of.
It sometimes sounds like there were too Ozzies singing at the same time 8)
@roboknob With older equipment, they'd have to record vocals twice, in order to get proper stereo sound.
@roboknob With older equipment, they'd have to record vocals twice, in order to get proper stereo sound.
Right! The stereo effect is great.
The beat is so weird. I love it.
this song has to be about some sort of lethal drug...
"Visions cupped within the flower Deadly petals with strange power"
LSA perhaps? (morning glory)
does anyone if i may be right?
does anyone know* .. sorry
You have got to listen to this song with headphones - very intrestin stereo effect on the vocals!
" You have got to listen to this song with headphones - very intrestin stereo effect on the vocals!"
to bad im deaf on my right ear...yeah, it sucks (my deafness, but the song's really good)