Shadowlands Songtext / Lyric

Does the shadowman possess you?

Is your dream still sweet and real?

Pain will always follow pleasure

That's how Nature cuts her deal

With every moment precious

It was time alone we'd steal

First it's heaven then it's hell

To allow all that we feel



I'm going down to these shadowlands

Shadowlands

What you can't cure you must endure

In shadowlands



Climbing and disowning

You've made acquisitions

Trading love for the masquerade

Just to realize positions






You put your mouth in someone else's pocket

So you still need need someone to blame

You turn your victim over

But lay bare your face and name

To you who vanquish memory,

In your powerlust for fame,

Brother Banquo he'll be calling

Yeah it's halloween again . . .

I may be leanin' on his shoulder

In these killing fields of shame



And I'll return from These Shadowlands

Shadowlands

What we don't cure must be endured

In these shadowlands



Where e'er the Fates may hide us

From the dark seas of our dreams

I pray you yet may find us

If you share these final scenes

By God's grace let you be the one

Who'll hear the sad refrain

From the echoes of a love song

On The Late Show playin'

A survivor of the airwaves

Sees the sun going down in flame

Framed against his doorway

A silhouette in chains...



Hell-bound for these shadowlands

Shadowlands

What we don't cure must be endured

In these shadowlands

And if we won't learn for sure we'll burn

in these Shadowlands