"Neverending Nightmare" by DragonForce plunges into a life already overtaken by dread, where surviving each day only confirms the trap is permanent. The opening fire and hunters give way to a tightened noose around the heart, and the repeated warning that this is only the start of the rest of your life turns hope into exhaustion. Even the defiant bridge admits time has already done its damage. The song leaves the feeling that escape is not a promise, only a struggle you cannot win.
Neverending Nightmare Lyrics by DragonForce
Now you’re living in a nightmare
Did you think you could survive there
When it’s only the start of the rest of your life?
‘Cause you’re walking on a thin line
And it’s gonna be a long ride
When it’s only the start of the rest of your life
Long ago inside the fire
Where the hunters all conspire
Conversations with the pyre
For a shot towards the stars
Lost alone without a meaning
Forever staring at the ceiling
Trying hard to keep believing
Sitting here inside the dark
To understand, do what we can
Until we reach the bottom
You make your plan, you pay the man
It’s a struggle you can’t win
‘Cause you’re living in a nightmare
Did you think you could survive there
When it’s only the start of the rest of your life?
‘Cause you’re walking on a thin line
And it’s gonna be a long ride
When it’s only the start of the rest of your life
Woah-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh
It’s only the start of the rest of your life, oh
Now it seems the pace is faster
Forever outrunning disaster
At the mercy of your master
Tightened noose around your heart
Your eyelids burn, the memories churn
The pieces of the puzzle
The bruises glow, inside you know
It’s a race you cannot win
‘Cause you’re living in a nightmare
Did you think you could survive there
When it’s only the start of the rest of your life?
‘Cause you’re walking on a thin line
And it’s gonna be a long ride
When it’s only the start of the rest of your life
Woah-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh
It’s only the start of the rest of your life, oh
Living to live, dying to die
Too many problems, but too little time
What do you need, what do you know
The same story ending down the same black hole
Straight off the rails into the void between
Another victim of the cold machine
Tracks are torn, nights embrace
Now you’re ejected and there is no saving face
I’m a dark crusader
And I won’t succumb
Discarding the hours, one by one
Better now than later
Look what time has done
I don’t know where I’m going, but I know where I came from
‘Cause you’re living in a nightmare
Did you think you could survive there
When it’s only the start of the rest of your life?
‘Cause you’re walking on a thin line
And it’s gonna be a long ride
When it’s only the start of the rest of your life
Woah-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh
It’s only the start of the rest of your life, oh
