Quietus Lyrics - Fates Warning

From sleeping visions 

Daily were torn 

In waking hours 

Hopes our forlorn. 

Is all we do and all we dream 

Doomed to drown in a hopeless stream? 

Wishing life were made of lasting visions 

In eternal sleep 

And if that rest were filled with sorrow 

Still we'd sleep. 

In the madness of a silent eternity 

We'd find solace in 

False visions that protect us 

From reality. 

Enter ivory gates through midnight skies 

Daylight dreamers in private parades 

Perform before perpetual dawn 

As dusk engulfs the gate of horn.