Invading your dreams at night And causing nightmares to scum Meticulous execution Through the portals of the ivory gate Oneiros of the endless The lord of the nether-realm The king of the dream-world The shaper of form Captured by an occult ritual Held prisoner for a hundred years Now set free in our time The king of the dream-world ♪ The captors shall be avenged And his kingdom rebuilt Oneiros, the sandman Oneiros, the sandman Oneiros, the sandman Oneiros, the sandman Immortal of the endless Unbound by space and time Neither limited from the waking world Across countless realms he walks ♪ None shall encroach his domain Not even god or the devil Angels tread petrified Victims lay terrorized Ruler of dreams and desires Of all mortal men One among the sons of Gaea He dwells among the dark shores of Oceanus Prepare the ivory gate for his next victim Ruler of dreams and desires The captors shall be avenged And his kingdom rebuilt All of the past sins undone A billion years set in his ways The captors shall be avenged And his kingdom rebuilt All of the past sins undone A billion years set in his ways