Niklas Strömstedt
Lord Hypnos
[Pre-Chorus]
I lie in your soothing arms, lord Hypnos
Your garment alive with your song
I lie in your soothing arms, lord Hypnos

[Chorus]
Steep the spiral to your far abode
In the wake of slumber, on visions I rode
And fell like history through the chasm of ages
Into the charged, forbidden zones

[Verse 1]
How I have searched
Through a million worlds and faces
Yet unaware, I have not found
My own true face, traceless and profound

[Verse 2]
So, find me in these grandiose halls
Where long ago summers eternally fall
And tune the strings of truthful longing
To the frozen music of gods

[Bridge]
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting
The soul that rises with us, our life's star
Hath had elsewhere its setting
And cometh from afar (Cometh afar)
[Verse 3]
Hypnagogia's lucid horizons
I play with the yearning I've quelled
As I strike towards the Pantheon
And what therein is held

[Pre-Chorus]
I lie in your soothing arms, lord Hypnos
Your garment alive with your song
I lie in your soothing arms, lord Hypnos

[Chorus]
Steep the spiral to your far abode
In the wake of slumber, on visions I rode
And fell like history through the chasm of ages
Into the charged, forbidden zones