Nostalgia, Anxiety Lead To Song Lyrics Revisit

Here’s the lyrics for a song I wrote about the Middle East around 17 years ago. It was your basic Armageddon panic attack.

Shadows On The Wall

Daylight comes again, and I’m waking up in the backrooms of a dream.
Camels on the furniture and crude oil coming out from the TV screen.
I’d been frightened on my way, I’d been running down the backroads of my mind, when a vision of catastrophe rose up from the desert floor in front of me. What I saw I still can recall but it’s really fading out on me becoming Shadows on the wall, Shadows on the wall. Shadows on the Wall.
In the dream there was a beast living in a cave in the Middle East, a beast made up of all the pain in a land where tears fall like rain.
I just can’t recall exactly what I saw. It’s really fading out on me becoming Shadows on the Wall.
One year it’s the Ayatollah, the next year it becomes Saddam. These guys aren’t the real story, they’re only shadows on the wall.
What I think the dream’s about is justice coming out like a wild beast from a cave, like a zombie from a grave.
Daylight comes again and I’m shaking from a vision in a dream. An ancient battle for a well. A family water fight that went to hell.
Trouble running deep, deeper than a well in the Middle East. Problems like grains of sand, swirling ‘round the dunes of an ancient land.
I wish I could recall exactly what I saw, but it’s really faded out on me becoming shadows on the wall, I still can’t recall exactly what I saw. it’s really faded out on me becoming Shadows on the Wall. Shadows on the Wall. Shadows on the Wall.