The Stranger Things I've Learned Lyrics - Infinite Spectrum

Silence, without exception 

Not one soul would I tell 

of the disastrous expedition 

to the church on Federal Hill 

I lose myself in research 

at the library downtown 

Through years of old newspaper files, 

for me the printed page recounts 

Lost in daydreams of hide and seek 

It's looking through the crystal, 

staring back at me 

Lost in nightmares and elegies 

Something claims my soul 

and I cannot break free 

Obsession with this cryptogram 

I found within the leather volume 

amidst the dust and mildew 

in the cobwebbed vestry room 

The cipher I discover 

is not a simple one 

A code in language strange, uncommon, 

a puzzle from beyond 

In June I solve the quandary, 

research in matters magic black 

The text is in dark Aklo, 

a language ancient and abstract 

I fear these things uncovered 

from behind the walls of sleep 

I never thought ignorance was bliss, 

but now I'm in too deep 

I see the birds of spring 

avoid the gaunt lone church's spire 

Whispers on the wind 

The darkness closing in 

Every evening, the old impulse 

to gaze westward returns 

The terror grows, as the hours pass 

from the stranger things I've learned 

Lost in daydreams of hide and seek 

It's looking through the crystal, 

staring back at me 

Lost in nightmares and elegies 

Something claims my soul 

and I cannot break free 

Lost in daydreams of hide and seek 

It's looking through the crystal, 

staring back at me 

Lost in nightmares and elegies 

Something claims my soul 

and I cannot break free 

Every evening, the old impulse 

to gaze westward returns 

The terror grows, as the hours pass 

from the stranger things I've learned