This song seems to capture bad dreams as a whole. Unsettling, scary, sad. It's like you took what you experienced in them and put them in this.
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Last night I dreamed a dream that was a nightmare. Or perhaps a glimpse into a future that could have been. My home was stolen in the dead of winter, and I wasn’t allowed to even take my shoes. I’m not sure why it was so, but the feeling of dread was intense. I awoke in a cold sweat, less of a man than when I had laid down.
Sometimes life is just so hard, so disparate. But we hold onto hope in spite of the odds.
Great song.
For me, this is a wistful piece, not necessarily indicating one's terror, but perhaps the half-depression, half-relief of having woken from a bad dream, with the knowledge one may have to suffer through it again. I have recurrent nightmares as well.
The last I had was interestingly a zombie apocalypse, and my father had been turned into a mindless beast that was trying unsuccessfully not to eat me, until I bit off a piece of his nose (no blood was involved), pried open his mouth, spat it in, and said, "You idiot -- I love you!" He grumbled back the same, surprised, and I locked him in a closet to set out for a cure.
I'm not sure what it means, but this song would suffice for how I felt.