A song lyric dealing with those memories that shadow and haunt us.

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Verse 1: Tie me down and hold me back

Shades of grey all fade to black

Vibrant colors run and lose their hue

Pictures flash across my mind

Dried wells opened, pumped and primed

Ancient mem’ries tumble into view

Chorus: And I wonder as I see them

Why they haunt me still?

Names and dates and places

Shouldas, oughts

I know I can’t escape them

They’re with me come what will

These nightly dreams of random, darkened thoughts

Nightly dreams of random, darkened thoughts

Verse 2: Fame and fortunes made and lost

Purchased heedless of the cost

Earthly goods stockpiled all to no end

Love and passion ground to dust

Sentence neither swift nor just

Lessons which I cannot comprehend

Chorus: And I wonder as I see them

Why do they haunt me still?

Names and dates and places

Shouldas, oughts

I know I can’t escape them

They’re with me come what will

These nightly dreams of random, darkened thoughts

Nightly dreams of random, darkened thoughts

Bridge: What’s imagined, what is real?

Deeper nightmares yet concealed

Open wounds that will not heal

Meanings yet to be revealed

Chorus: And I wonder as I see them

Why do they haunt me still?

Names and dates and places

Shouldas, oughts

I know I can’t escape them

They’re with me come what will

These nightly dreams of random, darkened thoughts

Nightly dreams of random, darkened thoughts

By Mike Turner

From: United States

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