Danse Macabre

Welcome, welcome to wonderland

Have you seen a rabbit here?

Clinging to your back as golden hands turn

A hypnotic stream of sand

Melting down to dunes of fear

Moving in a desert to cross you are afraid

And you just cannot help yearning

It's a funny, funny world, why don't you laugh?

I am drowning you, why don't you laugh?

Blind and numb you'll never see

That I jerk your strings

And I pull your leg

That you masquerade

And you swirl and you sway

Through my pitch-black and deadly cabaret until the music stops

Hush, hush keep acting comedy

With laughter from pandora's box

Where love is like fool's gold and tears like bloody diamonds

You cannot choose a middle way

Trembling from reviving shocks

Lie and grin on through your teeth

I forge them round my neck one day

It's a funny, funny world, why don't you laugh?

I am drowning you, why don't you laugh?

Blind and numb you'll never see

That I jerk your strings

And I pull your leg

That you masquerade

And you swirl and you sway

Through my pitch-black and deadly cabaret until the music stops

All my existence was wrapped around

A warmth and acceptance I've never found

I have become the monster they could not escape

So they made me the ultimate joke

Thus need not think 'til I rattle the drape

And since that one day I've arranged it with glee

Your pathetic old dance for eternity

Blind and numb you'll always be

While I jerk your strings

And I pull your leg

I left grace far behind

Since the day on which all you'd accept

Was but pain and misery

I never wanted fear from you

This gentle reaper will remind that once he had dreams too