Batten Down The Hatches

Wake from a memory

Old as a century

Evening beckons

With it's graces

Make for the rendezvous

Walk like I'm bulletproof

Start the clock!

Code words and cagey looks

Pills in a pocketbook

Keep me rollin'

I say good bye

Cab to the ketahaus

Big girls in bigger gowns

Stale perfume

But I gotta put up with this button up skin

Held together with thread so fat it looks thin

In the light of a hundred thousand burning men

There's no wonder the booze has a taste of death's scent

Batten down the hatches and lock away your pride

If you're hoping to survive

Woah!

Catastrophe is calling and we've reserved your seats,

To witness your defeat

Yeah!

Ride into the hornets' nest

Pleased I'm a welcome guest

Yes I'm drinking

You do the killing

Chilled? I should hope as much

Always a helpful touch

Inspires the tongue

Then I follow her out of this disco of death

And she's taking my hand as she claws off her dress

Now she opens the cell where her hostage lays bound...

Batten down the hatches and lock away your pride

If you're hoping to survive

Woah!

Catastrophe is calling and we've reserved your seats,

To witness your defeat

Yeah!

It only hits you when you turn around

Your face deflating like a circus clown

You never thought your sins would,

Come back to you

Well it's well overdue

You try to fight but it's too late

Your eyes plead save me from this

Judgement

Batten down the hatches and lock away your pride

If you're hoping to survive

Woah!

Catastrophe is calling and we've reserved your seats,

To witness your defeat

Batten down the hatches and lock away your pride

If you're hoping to survive

Batten down those hatches tight

If you're hoping to survive

Batten

You must be batten.

It's time to batten

Batten...

...Down

Batten down,

Those hatches tight!

Batten down!

Batten down those hatches,

And lock away your pride!