Rene Russell Music

Lyrics

A great dark horse came riding through the night, right through my window in
the twilight-She stopped at the foot of my bed & she said –Ride!

So I rode on the back of the Equus last night, as she flew I could hear strange
voices in the night, Like thieves they came & feared for my life!
Well their eyes were red & their faces were black , they rode in a pack but
they never looked back & the rumor that they left in the wind was one of
Death!

And the wind began to sing songs to me, songs I’d never heard, yet always sung….
& it occurred to me that the life I’d lived before the life I live today, though unseen, was not unreal!
And I saw where the world really comes to an end, I saw where the
creatures of the night begins, & I found out where all the secrets we tell hide!”
The melodious rhythm of the voice I hear is only a secret passing by my ear
on its sneaky little way to an undeserving ear to be told.
You know the realm of Secrets kept, and the realm of promises left un-kept
are side by side.
Last night I rode a Night-Mare, and Heaven forgot my name-
Well the colors all changed, but the Void remained the same
and Hell screamed out my name!
When I woke the next morning In my room all alone, my mind was cloudy &
the covers were gone, I tried to recall everything from the night before…
Well I remembered all the voices in the night, I remembered all the colors
changing dark to light & I recall it was all brought in by dark Night-Mare.
Then I laughed at myself, cuz I really was scared of the things I’d seen in this
strange Night-Mare so I went to the window for a breath of fresh air & my
blood froze!
For there in the dew on the clean cut lawn were a perfect set of prints not the
hooves of a fawn, but the neat round hooves of a horse that led to my window.
So if a great dark horse comes riding through the night, right through your
window in the twilight, she stops at the foot of your bed and she says “Ride”!
Well you better make sure that your head’s on straight, you oughta make
certain that you’re feeling real brave, cuz if you roll those dice & don’t think
twice you might die.
Cause sometimes things are not, what everyone thinks they are, just
because they’re in your dreams doesn’t mean they’re not Real!
So Last night I rode a Night-Mare, and Heaven forgot my name-
Well the colors all changed, but the Void remained the same
and Hell screamed out my name