Gypsy Queen

Down in new orleans in a shack by the water

My future found me in the shadows of the quarter

Fell down an alley off of bourbon street

I was goin' half crazy from the crowds and the heat

Could 've been the spell of the hurricane

When a voice from the dark whispered my name

Slipped down a hallway to a dark back room

Heard a phantom from the dark sing a gypsy tune

Bon ton roule and a voulez vous

Life in the quarter could be strange and cruel

Bad luck to talk about the things i've seen

There's no one meaner than the gypsy queen

I laughed out loud when she spoke of luck

Reached in my pocket for my twenty bucks

I didn't recognize the letters she wrote

Round a five sided star and the head of a goat

She read my palm and she told me that

In my future was the name lestat

Then she finished and i had to go

Next stop the grave of marie leveaux

Bon ton roule and a voulez vous

Life in the quarter could be strange and cruel

Bad luck to talk about the things i've seen

There's no one meaner than the gypsy queen

Went to the graveyard just about midnight

I saw somethin' flyin' in the pale moonlight

Next thing i was wakin' and i felt my neck

There were two little lumps that were kinda' wet

Since that day i live for the night

I glide the alleys away from the light

There's only one way that i'll ever depart

It's when i leave with a stake in my heart

Bon ton roule and a voulez vous

Life in the quarter could be strange and cruel

Bad luck to talk about the things i've seen

There's no one meaner than the gypsy queen