Текст песни The Nightmare - Beau

"Is this the Apocalypse?" Now he enquires!
The Matron is busy connecting the wires
She smiles in the way that so often they do
When they know that a treatment is long overdue
She's never been famous for hiding her thoughts
Like everyone out there, she reads the reports
"They say we're expecting a meteorite
And they're panicking out in the City tonight
It's a nightmare!
A nightmare!

"From all that they say, it's a dangerous beast
Flying in low, coming out of the east
It seems it defies all applicable laws
And who knows the damage it's likely to cause?
But now, for the moment you'll need to relax
Imagine avoiding your inheritance tax
Suspend animation when the treatment resumes
Dream, as the darkness relentlessly looms
It's the nightmare
The nightmare

"It's easy to feel that you're out on your own
When you're sleepwalking into a parallel zone
And biting down hard on that suicide pill
You don't seem to know that you're seriously ill!
We're all here and with you to carry the weight
We're telling you everything is going to be great
And that's all that anyone ever can say
Get used to it, son; it's not going away!
It is the nightmare
Oh, the nightmare"

"So what happens now?" The patient persists
She fixes his fetters and shackles his wrists
And wipes off the sweat of his brow on her sleeve
"What's happening now, boy? We've got to believe!
Believe at all costs that we're getting it right
'Cos it's dark in the City, and they're needing the light!"
She leans over, offers one innocent kiss
"Maybe someday we'll be laughing at this!
It's a nightmare
Just a nightmare"

"It's too close to call!" all the bulletins shriek
Holding their heads in their hands, so to speak
Many indeed want this intruder to land
It's strange, but try never to misunderstand
For some it's worth trying defying the odds
To fly in the face of those devious Gods
And so let the slow-motion drama unfold
The sunlight be lost to the shivering cold
Of the nightmare
The nightmare

And so let the slow-motion drama unfold
The sunlight be lost to the shivering cold
Of the nightmare
The nightmare
The nightmare
The nightmare