Dedication:

For all the crazy peeps on n i g h t s i n t o d r e a m s . c o m, who have provided me with endless hours of entertainment while lurking on the boards. But since this collection of shoddily constructed lyrics has nothing to do with Gens / iMAGNi / Bunny Men, it's going up on f f . n e t instead of the forum. May this collection of shoddily constructed lyrics not burn your eyes too much.

THE TRAGEDY OF NiGHTS

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

NiGHTS. EMMALINA. CHRIS, Emmalina's lover.
REALA, the brother of NiGHTS. CLARIS.

(Wizeman's Courtroom). Jackel, Gillwing, Puffy, Clawz, Gulpo, et. all.

SONGS

01 - Dreams Come True (Reality Less So)
02 - Shut the Blinds, I'll Sleep Forever
03 - Against My Better Judgment, I Love You
04 - Revenge, a Bloody Dagger
05 - Prayer of the Righteous Son
06 - Where Light Is As Darkness
07 - Sowing Seeds (The Dream Goes On)

Chris, a boy with heart of stone
Emmalina, lost, alone
Thief of dreams steps in their home
NiGHTS, the heir to Nightmare's throne

Our story begins as NiGHTS, the First Prince of Nightmare, descends upon a quiet apartment in Twin Seeds. He is there to torment yet another dreamer: this time, a young woman in her early twenties named 'Emmalina.' With a light chuckle, he stirs her thoughts with his finger, conjuring up some of his favorite terrors: the wild beast that cannot be outrun, drowning in an ice-covered lake, and his favorite, falling from the sky onto a bed of broken glass.

But the young woman doesn't try to outrun the shadow beast, but simply lets it tear her to pieces. She lets herself sink to the bottom of the ice-covered lake, embracing the tangled weeds that wrap themselves around her body. And as she falls through the sky, a thousand feet in the air, her only reaction is a faint smile. Even when he reaches into her soul and tears out her Ideya, she does not so much as flinch.

NiGHTS finishes with Emmalina and moves to the young man lying beside her. This one puts up the usual struggles and screams, but they no longer bring NiGHTS any pleasure. Not even stealing the young man's Ideya gives him the same rush. He shrugs it off and returns home, but something within him has been shaken.

On his next mission, NiGHTS returns to their home and watches the couple's dreams from a distance. And as he sees their lives unfold before him, he feels something he has never known before. He feels pity for the weak, pitiful creatures known as humans.

01 - Dreams Come True (Reality Less So)

NiGHTS:

He is a book that nobody has read
And she is a ghost that sleeps in his bed
They say life is good, but just not to them
She's taking another inch off the hem

Of the skirt that she bought when she turned sixteen
When her life fell apart and she lost all her dreams
A sob in the dark and a nightmare by day
Her life has unraveled, she's fading away in his arms

Chorus:
If your life is a dream
And if time is a stream
That you can't step into again
I will stay here tonight,
Be the wings of your flight,
'Till this nightmare of life has an end

She has a knight wearing armor of steel
To protect himself from having to feel
The last of the worst in a long string of men
He's saying whatever just to get in

To the skirt that she bought when she turned sixteen
When the world fell apart and she started to lean
On whoever was there and whoever would stay
Her life has unraveled, I'll take her away from it all

Chorus x2