METAPHORS
SHADOWS MAKE LONELY COMPANY

OUT OF THE SHADOWS CAME

FELL UNDER THE SPELL OF

UNEASY MAGIC

BASKET FULL OF DREAMS

IN THE DREAM OF A DEW WASHED MORNING

FEEL THE MAGIC

THE FAIRIES OF SLEEP

MY SONG WILL BE LIKE WINGS TO YOUR DREAM

FIELD OF DAYDREAMS

DREAMCATCHER

BOLTS OF EVIL MAGIC

THE COLD DARK DEPTHS

REALM OF PERPETUAL DARKNESS

THE SHADOW OF HISTORY

MISTRESS OF DECEPTION

STUFF DREAMS ARE MADE OF

GHOSTLY SHADOWS

SHADOW DAPPLED TRAIL

UNDER THE SHADOW OF

STOOD IN THE SHADOW

THERE WAS MAGIC IN THE AIR

WHEN THE SPELL OF MORTALITY IS BROKEN

IN THE SHADOW OF LUSH GREEN MOUNTAINS

IRON GHOSTS FROM THE AGE OF STEAM

THE STRENGTH OF ITS SHADOW

UNTANGLE THE MYSTERIES

A DARK AND WRETCHED

DARK AND DANGEROUS

ABANDONED DREAMS

A GREY LONELY PLACE

CAST A DREAMY SPELL

MYSTERIOUS FOG

A STRANGE MOON....

DRAGONS WINGS

THE MAGIC OF THE TROPICS

WAVES OF DARKNESS

DISTURB THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD

HOLLOW DARKNESS

CONSUMING DARKNESS

A GLOOMY SILENCE FILLED THE AIR

AFTERNOON SHADOWS STRECHED LONG AND THIN

AS THE TWILIGHT SHADOWS LENGTHENED

EERIE AND STILL AS A GRAVEYARD

IN A DARK AND MYSTERIOUS WAY

HEART OF DARKNESS

THE POWER OF DARKNESS

THE PASSING OF UNSEEN WINDS AND SPIRITS

THIS MAGICAL WORLD

A PLACE OF MYSTERY AND WONDER

IN THE SHADOW OF A SNOW CAPPED MOUNTAIN

LIVES FADE LIKE A PASSING SHADOW

SHED LIGHT ON AN OLD MYSTERY

STIRS THE IMAGINATION

CHALLENGES THE IMAGINATION

GREEN SEA OF DARKNESS

DREAM OF IMMORTALITY

GHOSTLY WHITE SEA

SCRAPE OF SHADE

SCRAGGLY BIT OF SHADE

EMERGING FROM THE MIST

A LANDSCAPE OF DREAMS

A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE

THE DARKER SIDE

SHROUDED IN MYSTERY

IN THE COLD, DARK, MYSTERIOUS CLOUDS OF SPACE

IN THE SHADOWS

AS DARKNESS FALLS

OBSCURED IN THE SHADOWS

GATHERING GLOOM

PUSHED INTO THE NIGHT

THE PRICE OF A DREAM

THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

FOUND MY DREAM

EVENING SHADOWS PAINTED THE FIELDS

DEATHLY QUIET

TIME TO DREAM

WORN OUT DREAMS

IN MY WILDEST DREAMS

VEHICLES OF DESTRUCTION

MYSTERIOUS FORCE

OUT OF THE NIGHT

OUT OF THE GLOOM

IN THE COAL BLACK NIGHT - ALL WAS CHAOS

BEYOND MY WILDEST IMAGINATION

HYPNOTIC DRONE AND BLUR

DARING THE SHADOWS

THUNDEROUS DARKNESS

HAUNTS OF IMAGINATION

MY CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE

CITY OF THE DEAD

BOOK OF THE DEAD

GOD OF THE AFTERLIFE

PRIEST CHANTING PRAYERS

SEASONS IN HELL

SCENE OF DESTRUCTION

LIFTING THE DARKNESS

DARES TO DREAM

ENTANGLED IN MY DREAMS

LIKE A BAD DREAM

THE MOST MAGICAL DREAM IN THE WORLD

SLIPPING THROUGH THE SHADOWS

ROSE INTO THE DARKNESS

THE DEPTHS OF HELL

JAWS OF DEATH

DARES TO DREAM

ENTANGLED IN MY DREAMS

A SLEEPING GIANT

ETERNAL REBIRTH

A HAUNTING SENSE OF

THE WORLD BEYOND

A SLEEPING GIANT

SHADOWY STREET LIFE

CAST HIS SPELL

A STRANGE MAGIC

IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS

THE MIDNIGHT GLOOM

THE PULL OF THE UNKNOWN

NIGHT HAS FALLEN

ECHOES WITH MYSTERIES

A MISTY WORLD OF SHADOW AND LIGHT

MATERIALIZE IN THE MIST

SHATTERED DREAMS

OUTER DARKNESS

THE DEEPENING SHADOWS

ARMED WITH MAGIC

FAIRY TALE MOOD

DEATH'S SHADOW

SLOWED DOWN DREAMLIKE STATE

LIKE A GHOSTLY NIGHT-MARE

ROARS FROM THE DARKNESS

SEE THINGS YOU NEVER DREAMED OF

AN OLD DREAM

OUT CHASING SHADOWS

THE SECRET GARDEN

WITH THE WAVE OF HER WAND

HAUNTING AWARENESS

THE DEAD OF NIGHT

LURKING IN THE SHADOWS

SLEEPING IN THE SHADE

EMPTY DREAMS

STILL IN A DREAM

THE SHADOWY LIGHT

A DREAMY FASCINATION

IN THE COLD DARK VOID

MARCHES THROUGH MY DREAMS

LIKE A GHOST FROM A MISTY PAST

VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE

ALWAYS DREAMED OF THIS MOMENT

.....CASTS A SHADOW OVER CALLS IN THE DARKNESS

DARK THINGS SILENT CREPT BENEATH

LIKE BEING IN A FAIRY TALE

A QUIET MAGIC

DEATHLY QUIET

A NOISE FROM BENEATH THE EARTH

A KEY TO THE SILENT WORLD

DEEPENS THE MYSTERY

THE DARKNESS CLOSES IN AROUND US

FEEL THE MAGIC

A WEIRD VIOLENT WHOOSHING NOISE

A WILD DREAM COME TRUE

PHANTOM OF THE NIGHT

SHIMMERING MAGICALLY IN THE MORNING SUN

NIGHT SOUNDS

DEADLY DRAMA

AN INVISIBLE THREAT

STAND IN SILENCE

A GHOST FROM THE PAST

HAUNTING TONES DRIFT OVER THE MOUNTAINS

THEY HOLD DARK SECRETS

THE DARKNESS PEIRCED BY STRANGE COLORED LIGHTENING

THE VASTNESS OF NOTHING - TO THE EXTREMITIES OF NOWHERE

MAGICALLY FASCINATING

FAIRY TOWER

HEAVENLY LADDER

A BIT OF THE MOUNTAINS MAGIC

DUSTING OF MAGIC

PASSIONS DWELL IN THE SHADOWS

THE DEAD LIVE FOREVER

THEY WERE REACHING FOR PIE IN THE SKY

SIMILES

MY SONG WILL BE LIKE WINGS TO YOUR DREAM

LIVES FADE LIKE A PASSING SHADOW

LIKE A BAD DREAM

LIKE A GHOSTLY NIGHT-MARE

LIKE A GHOST FROM A MISTY PAST

LIKE BEING IN A FAIRY TALE EERIE AND STILL AS A GRAVEYARD

SILENT AS SILK

LIKE AN ACT OF MAGIC

CREAK LIKE THE TIMBERS OF A SAILING SHIP

LIKE AN ANCIENT FEAR TURNED TO DIRT AND LEFT TO CRUMBLE

WRITHING LIKE DRAGON TAILS









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