The Mysterious Vanishing Of The Foremar Family

I know when I’m gone the full tragic truth will also die

And there fore their being at last will have been but a lie?

If no-one is left to remember their sorrowful story?

When nobody tells the sad tale? No-one’s there to be sorry

Imagine a night, stygian black while you’re cosy and warm

Imagine the howling of some ineluctable storm

So if you are ready and I’ve got your outright attention

I’m ready to unveil the story of old Foremar Mansion

Where a family lived long ago – but what makes it so weird

Is not that they lived there but rather that they disappeared

There wasn’t a soul from the great hall to the smallest pantry

The great Foremar manor henceforward forever stood empty

They lived in house built on dreams and built if burnt bricks

Tatted up, impressed by themselves as they swaggered

Gave a home to many good friends and to some rascal tricks

Sirens lured, could it be that they followed and staggered

Did they care for anyone else except for themselves?

So why should anyone care for them now

Empty rooms, not very much left on the old rotten shelves

They ended in smoke but you cannot say now

But they all are long since gone

It’s a riddle what went wrong

Scarcely anyone knows that they ever lied here

Nor do we know why they disappeared

Why they all have long since gone

Maybe there lived too many monsters under their stairs

We don’t know if they all were led or were banished

Did they see stranger eyes in the night that gave them a stare?

Did they feel just head over heals as they vanished

No-one knows if they were driven or if they were led

Dusty rooms, no more servants to clear away plates

Did they cry or did they move on without any regrets

No farewells, no more talks and no boring debates

But they all are long since gone

It’s a riddle what went wrong

Scarcely anyone knows that they ever lived here

Nor do we know why they disappeared

Why they all have long since gone

The only things found were remains

Of the poor chained unwanted cousin

He had been slightly insane

From below stairs there was babbling and buzzing

He just didn’t suit, couldn’t fit

So he was locked up in the cellar

Displeasing he sat in the pit

Until he passed, poor little fella

But they all are long since gone

It’s a riddle what went wrong

Scarcely anyone knows that they ever lived here

Nor do we know why they disappeared

Why they all have long since gone

But they all are long since gone

It’s a riddle what went wrong

But they all are long since gone

It’s a riddle what went wrong

Scarcely anyone knows that they ever lived here

Nor do we know why they disappeared

Why they all have long since gone

But they all have long since gone

It’s a riddle what went wrong

So what, drove them away, no-one ever can say

And the only thing we know today

Is that they didn’t stay