[Intro Child Chor ,One, two... The hallway waits for you... Three, four... The furnace wants you more...]
[Verse 1]
Elm Street sleeps beneath a painted moon, Curtains sway in breathless rooms. A telephone hums like a funeral hymn, While tired eyes surrender at the rim.
A girl hears footsteps where no feet belong, A scraping rhythm, patient and long. The clock keeps moving, the walls grow thin, And Freddy Krueger steps right in.
[Pre-Chorus]
Every blink becomes a doorway, Reality slips out of view. The deeper I drift beneath the surface, The dreamer becomes the hunted too.
[Chorus]
Stay awake... Before the bladed hand tears you apart. Stay awake... Don't let the red sky tear asunder. The deeper I fall, The nearer that striped nightmare descends. If sleep is the road, Then I know exactly where it ends.
[Heavy Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
Boilers breathe beneath forgotten years, Fed by gasoline, vengeance and fear. The grown-ups buried what they could not face, But embers remember every trace.
A striped silhouette at the edge of sight, Dragging tomorrow through the dead of night. The wounds arrive before the scream is born, And daylight finds another soul torn.
[Pre-Chorus]
No locked door can keep him distant, No prayer can alter what remains. He walks between the waking world And the kingdom behind our veins.
[Chorus]
Stay awake... Before the bladed hand tears you apart. Stay awake... Don't let the red sky tear asunder. The deeper I fall, The nearer that striped nightmare descends. If sleep is the road, Then I know exactly where it ends.
[Heavy Guitar Solo]
[Breakdown]
Every parent kept a secret. Every child inherited the flame.
You burned the body... But not the hatred.
You buried the truth... But not the name.
Wake up!
He's in the ceiling. He's in the floor. He's in the mirror. He's at the door.
[Chorus]
Stay awake... My heartbeat fractures into thunder. Stay awake... The dream is pulling me under. His laughter blooms Where reason begins to bend. If fear gives him form, Then how does this nightmare end?
[Heavy Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Nancy stands where terror loses ground, Drawing him into the now. No longer prey beneath his reign, She tears the roots from living pain.
The furnace dims. The terror of the night fades away. The house exhales a moment's peace. Yet somewhere far beyond the dawn, A nursery rhyme is carried on.
[Final Chorus]
Stay awake... Though every star is turning colder. Stay awake... Though every burden weighs your shoulders. Some monsters feed On the fear we defend. But stripped of our dread, Even legends can finally end.
Stay awake... Stay awake...
One, two... The hallway waits for you... Three, four... The furnace wants you more...
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