I see the dreams Dying inside of you I hear them scream From all that you put them through There in your eyes Suffer the butterflies in vain Drowning in your tears From so many years of pain Gone are the unicorns The roses are only thorns The bees have all fled the hive When real life prevails Only the nightmares survive Only the nightmares survive You grew up so fast How could anything playful last? Buried alive in the past When the pace of your life Shifts into overdrive Only the nightmares survive Your fantasies Have fallen into the sea Your highest hopes Now hang in an empty tree Now that you're grown Look at the seeds that you have sewn A wasteland of work The flowers have turned to stone Too late for the big parade The color's begun to fade The reaper will soon arrive When dreams go to hell Only the nightmares survive Only the nightmares survive