We Are Your Nightmares by Jonathan Christenson Lyrics

[Player 2]
And this was when we met you
Aboard the steamer

[Edgar]
I remember-yes...I was telling you
Where I was heading, and why-

[Player 5]
A position-perhaps-if all went well-
Chief editor of a new journal-a stable
Income-

[Edgar]
Yes, and of course, my engagement-

[Player 2]
Yes, of course, your engagement

[Edgar]
And then you began to tell me a tale-
[Players]
You cannot escape us, Edgar!

[Edgar]
What did you say?
Excuse me-I'm afraid you've caught me
At a bit of a disadvantage

I'm sure we've met, you seem so familiar-
What did you say your names were?

[Players]
You'll never escape us-

[Edgar]
Your names!
I'm sorry. I can't seem to place you-

[Player 2]
Of course. I'm William Wilson-

[Player 4]
Marie Rogêt-

[Player 3]
Arthur Gordon Pym-
[Player 1]
Roderick Usher-

[Player 6]
They call me Lenore-

[Player 5]
And I'm Annabel Lee

[Edgar]
No!

[Player 5]
Edgar-

[Edgar]
No! Stay away from me!
I know who you are! How dare you
Insult me-how dare you mock me!

[Player 2]
Edgar!
You cannot escape who you are!

[Edgar]
No! I'll show you! A man can change!
A man can escape his past!
[Player 2]
Then we docked-

[Player 1]
He grabbed
My bombazine coat-

[Player 3]
And my old straw har-

[Player 2]
Then he turned and he rushed from the boat



[Player 2]
But we were with you, we were always there
With you

[Player 5]
You were never alone

[Player 2]
You see, without you, Edgar
We wouldn't exist-

[Player 5]
And, of course, without us
You would have been nothing

[Players]
For we are your nightmares, we are your dreams
We are all you created
We are all that you are and all that you've been
All that you've loved and you've hated!

Yes, we are your curse and we are your gift
We can anchor you, set you adrift;
Eternal friends and mortal foes
Your greatest joys, your deepest woes!



[Players]
So love us and hate us, destroy us, create us
You, we will never abandon!
Faithful and true, evermore to you
Your dark and malignant companions

And, in the end, though we love you
We will break you, we will destroy you!
Yes, in the end, though we love you-

We are what will destroy you!

[Edgar]
No!

Please! Let this crisis, this danger be past!
Let this lingering illness be over at last!
Let this fever called living all lie in the past!
Let this fever called living be over at last!