The Dark Side of Forever
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Pasteboard cutouts
gathering their victims
the senseless and the screamers
claws as fingers, fangs as teeth
menacing, advancing, must be killed

chorus:
movie monsters, loved and feared
worshiped and abhored
they live by the light of the flickering screen
I die by the light of the shining sun

moonlight, sunlight, all so real
illuminate, burn and sear
I rise from the graveyard
in dead of night
regret glosses over
the passing of years

chorus

the dark children worship
the light children fear
the holy, as one, condemn my life
I die, I live, I hunt, I kill
a wolf among the sheep

chorus

I who live 
forever in the dark
gaze in longing at the flickering screens
the dark side of forever
beckons with a finger
come, join me in my nocturnal haunts
come, join me in my eternal dreams

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N. Aucoin 1995