Label: Roadrunner Records
Release Year: 1989
Producer: King Diamond
Co-Producers: Roberto Falcao, Andy LaRocque
Cover: Thomas Holm, Torbjorn Jorgensen
1. At The Graves
2. Sleepless Nights
3. Lies
4. A Visit From The Dead
5. The Wedding Dream
6. Amon Belongs To Them
7. Something Weird
8. Victimized
9. Let It Be Done
10. Cremation
Missy I miss you so
Oh little sister
I'd wish you'd come back to me
And sit by my side
We'd laugh and we'd play again
If only you'll try
You know "THEY" would show the way
From the other side
Rise from your grave little sister
Rise...Rise...
Rise my friends...rise
Spirits rising from their graves
Burning shadows in the dead of night
Icy fingers all over my hand
Try to make me understand
"Finally we have returned...all of us!"
Missy is that you, come closer
Spirits rising from their graves
Everywhere that ghostly stare
Icy fingers all over my hand
Lead me back to where she stands
"THEY" are back to share my life
"THEY" are back
Missy come, come with me
There are things I must know
How did you get here
Where's the door to the other side
Missy: "Beyond the graves lies the gate
the gate that leads to the dead
We have to leave before the dawn
if not by the sun we will burn"
Spirits rising from their graves
Soon the dawn will chase the dark away
Icy fingers all over my hand
Lead me back to where "THEY" stand
Am I glad you have returned...all of you
Do you remember when grandmother said
She heard "THEM" sing
I've heard "THEM" too and I really wish
I could hear "THEM" again
Missy: "In your mind you'll hear "THEM" sing
Every night at the graves
We have to leave before the dawn
if not by the sun we will burn
Now sing"
Show your powers unto me
I cannot sleep at night
That's what the day for is anyway
And as the clock strikes midnight
I hear "THEM" dancing at the graves
Singing to my mind, killing the pain...
Sleepless Nights...Sleepless Nights
I cannot sleep at night
That's what the day for is anyway
And as the clock strikes midnight
Only "THEY" can let us meet
Even though she's dead now
I gotta see her again
Sleepless Nights...Sleepless Nights
I cannot sleep at night
I will do anything to see Missy again
"Then let us make you an eternal deal
You will attend to the graves
You'll give us the house back
And keep in mind we only com here at night"
So we made the deal under the starry night and
"AMON" belongs to "THEM" now...
I feel the dawn coming my way
And as the sun breaks up the dark
I can't hear "THEM" dance no more
There's no voices killing the pain...
Yesterday I spent an hour
A full hour in therapy
My favorite Doctor Landau
My God I hate his breath
He asked me questions
That kind of fool deserves a lie
I gave him answers
The kind of answers doctors like
Yes, I gave him a bunch of lies
I told him all my nightmares
Were dead and gone
"These days I sleep like a baby
and there never ever was a "THEM"
He asked me questions
That kind of fool deserves a lie
I gave him answers
The kind of answers doctors like
The doctor looked into my eyes
Landau: "No Trace of insanity
Maybe the time is right now
To have a visit from your family
I'm thinking of your Mother
What does my little patient say?"
I should have taken his stethoscope
And then forced it down his throat
My Mother was at stake
So I behaved
That night I cleaned the entire house
For everything but the memories
No dust, no tea, ah stupid me
I even took the axe away
The Sun is up and it's time for bed
I'm so tired
I can't wait no more
It must be Summer the sky is clear
The garden is so beautiful
All the flowers and all the trees
Makes me feel like their inside of me
I'm holding my sister's hand
While we're playing in the sand
It's all but a dream
My bed is moving
I cannot see a thing
I am in total darkness
Someone is calling
I can feel the chill, it's all around me
I know it's not a dream, no, no, no
Someone is in my room
Standing at the end of my bed
Must be a visit from the dead
Must be a visit from the dead
Now I see her figure, it's just a little child
And there's no reflection, she's in the mirror
Could it really be, She has returned?
My little sister
"King beware
Something bad is coming your way
King beware"
Must be a visit from the dead
Must be a visit from the dead
Missy will you tell me
You know we don't have no secrets
"Just Beware"
Must be a visit from the dead
Must be a visit from the dead
You've got to tell me Missy
Come on now, spit out little girl
"I'll send you a dream..."
My Mother is entering my dream now
She's wearing a wedding dress
Something's wrong
With the way she walks the aisle
I think it's her legs
Suddenly there is someone else beside her
That man I recognize
The Doctor intends to marry my Mother
It's got to be stopped
Now what have I done
My Mother's on the floor
And the Doctor is gone
Everything is wrong
And as I keep the axe
I wonder what's to come
I'm caught within a dream
There's no way out
I can't escape
If I could only see the light of day
I might escape this dream
The wedding dream...Oh the dream
Now everything turns to darkness
Deep within I feel like I'm going blind
There is a light
At the end of this starless nightmare
Someone is calling
Guiding me back inside
The dream
No...get away from him Mother
You'd better stop kissing
Cause he's an enemy
Take a look at his hand
He's got the key to my house
The Doctor is the Devil
I can't escape
If I could only see the light of day
I might escape this dream
The wedding dream...Oh the dream
Dream...the wedding dream...Oh the dream
Now everything turns to darkness
Deep within I feel like I'm going blind
There is a light
At the end of this starless nightmare
Someone's screaming, "Help me Please"
And it's me
At sunrise I woke up in a sweat
The nightmare was gone
The dream I sent is fadings lowly
I do not understand
Today my mother will return to my house
And all the things I've done
I've done to make her feel at home again
Oh...it's all part of an act
She can stay as long as I keep the pact
There's someone ringing at my front door bell
I see my Mother there
Standing there with the man I wanna send to Hell
Mother: "Oh King see who came along"
Ma you don't understand
It's all part of the deal
There's no way I can let him inside
You see "AMON belong to THEM"
Doctor: "You go ahead
And have a talk with the boy my dear"
You better bring this along
Something might go wrong inside
Come on Mother let me show you the house
Come on Mother there's lots to discuss
Mother: "Please King let him in"
Ma you don't understand
It's all part of the deal
There's no way I can let him inside
You see "AMON belong to THEM
Now let me tell you
What I've seen in the house lately
I've seen your daughter here
Coming and going when the dark is near
You must never ever tell anyone what I've told
I have heard "THEM" singing too
Hey Mother what's that for?
Oh I feel the needle piercing my skin
Am I'm falling, yes I'm falling down...
(Instrumental)
A little later in the day
Mother and the Doctor went away
They left me lying on the floor
heading for a local church
Not a single trace of guilt in their eyes
The revernend Sammael
The venom of GOD himself
And so easy to convert
Conspiracy, I'm being victimized again
Sammael, GOD in his eyes
Knocking at the preacher's door
None of them were ever here before
Sammael, GOD in his eyes
Leads them into the silent room
Oh such a holy gloom
Doctor: "Priest
Do you remember King, the looney one
The one who killed his grandma
Up on the hill?"
Priest: "Yes I do"
Doctor: "He's back, the looney one"
Talking to the preacher for a while
The Doctor turned him into a child
Sammael, GOD in his eyes
Swallowed everything the Doctor said
Oh in the gloom of the night
Priest: "From what you tell me
We cannot save himself
It could be Satan himself
Or some evil demon
Let us not waste any time
The demon might twist our minds
We must go and do what must be done"
Conspiracy, I'm being victimized again
Victimized
So the left the church
Conspiracy of the cursed
Through the dark and the rain
The priest was mildly insane
A crucifx in his hand...Oh no...
Doctor: "Soon the house will belong to us my dear
And King will be gone forever
Isn't it Heaven?
Doctor: "Whose gonna set fire to the coffin?"
Priest: "I think you and your wife should do it together
While I keep the demon indise with my crucifix"
Doctor: "So in the coffin use the torch
And then we put the remains in his sister's grave right?"
Priest: "Yes, Let it be done."
Whenever the dark is near
I will return from the grave to haunt you
Godforsaken Whore
