Released on February 20, 1996

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[Pre-Chorus]

I lie in your soothing arms, lord Hypnos

Your garment alive with your song

I lie in your soothing arms, lord Hypnos

[Chorus]

Steep the spiral to your far abode

In the wake of slumber, on visions I rode

And fell like history through the chasm of ages

Into the charged, forbidden zones

[Verse 1]

How I have searched

Through a million worlds and faces

Yet unaware, I have not found

My own true face, traceless and profound

[Verse 2]

So, find me in these grandiose halls

Where long ago summers eternally fall

And tune the strings of truthful longing

To the frozen music of gods

[Bridge]

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting

The soul that rises with us, our life's star

Hath had elsewhere its setting

And cometh from afar (Cometh afar)

[Verse 3]

Hypnagogia's lucid horizons

I play with the yearning I've quelled

As I strike towards the Pantheon

And what therein is held

[Pre-Chorus]

I lie in your soothing arms, lord Hypnos

Your garment alive with your song

I lie in your soothing arms, lord Hypnos

[Chorus]

Steep the spiral to your far abode

In the wake of slumber, on visions I rode

And fell like history through the chasm of ages

Into the charged, forbidden zones