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(Jumpsteady) 
Now I lay me down to sleep 
I pray the Lord my soul to keep 
Time swifts back upon my bed 
As the undead walk inside my head 
Don't you hear the ghostly calls? 
Transcending from beyond the walls 
They have shown in this life I've known 
There's another world beyond our own 
Twisted, broken, shadow land 
Connected by paths of emerald sand 
Have you seen the things I've seen? 
Been visited by phantom beings? 
Haunted by those in hooded cloaks 
Or been in the séance to invoke 
Many who see don't believe 
Because they chose naivety 

(Chorus) 
Don't you know that ghosts exist? 
Do you believe in exorcist? 
Don't you know that demons live? 
Do you live a life of sin? 
Don't you know they'll comfort you? 
Depending on the path you choose 
Don't you hear the ghostly calls? 
Or do you hide behind your walls? 

(Jumpsteady) 
Spiraling back into my past 
The nightmare upon my mind is cast 
Remembering a time so long ago 
When death took me into its fold 
As a young child awakening 
Face in a pillow suffocating 
All my senses were there to me 
But I couldn't move and I couldn't breathe 
As I died I realized 
There was a reason I was paralyzed 
Inside that room I was not alone 
There was a presence neither flesh or bone 
Even though I could not see 
I felt its evil beyond imagining 
More afraid of it than death 
I broke its hold upon my flesh 

(Chorus) 
Can't you hear the child's screams? 
Can you see horrific dreams? 
Can't you feel your death embrace? 
Can you follow the path of grace? 
Can't you see the world I see? 
Can you see the reality? 
Do you remember a time like this? 
Or is it locked away in subconsciousness? 

(Jumpsteady) 
As a child, I heard ghostly calls 
Striping insanity from my walls 
A female voice would come to me 
And say my name repeatedly 
Death's temptation from the grave 
Spoken word my life did fade 
Slowly forget as the years go by 
Plagued by nightmares, I wonder why? 
Dreams of a car flipping end to end 
Screams of a woman is deafening 
When I awake, I'm remembering 
The explosions of pain and dismembering 
Then one day a vision forms 
Inside my mind a dream was born 
I drove a car that's now destroyed 
A woman's inside like a broken toy 
Blood goes cold as I realized 
Her face is too bloody to recognize 
Looking through my horrified eyes 
Somehow I loved this woman who died 
Turning to me upon deaths embrace 
She calls my name out to space 
It's the voice of my childhood ghost 
I reach for her, but the vision is lost 

(Chorus) 
Won't you step up through the gate? 
Will you face up to your fate? 
Won't you hear their ghostly calls? 
Transcending from beyond the walls? 
Won't you enter the shadow land? 
And walk upon the emerald sand? 
Have you seen what I have seen? 
Or do you choose to be naïve?