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Artist: Ram
Canonical path: /ram/the-elixir
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The Elixir
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The Elixir
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London 1888
Dr. Francis Tumblety:
Heureka! The drops work according to my design,
The dreaded hour glass of death no longer includes me
The Grim Reaper:
I can see you dear doctor, I see your unholy brew,
But no-one cheats my scythe from it's ransom of life
Dr. Francis Tumblety:
My glorious life, prolonged in agelessness,
Forever I will live,
Never fearing the end
The Grim Reaper:
Oh hello my dear doctor, I think you know who I am
You owe me in life's years, oh how shall you repay?
You must kill three sickly victims prematurely,
So the balance is upheld
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You must kill to repay the life you have taken,
Because in the end it belongs to me
Dr. Francis Tumblety:
Oh here I stalk these terrible streets,
Full of filth and derelicts
To execute harlots soon to die from disease,
Two are dead and the third ones life soon shall cease
If only I could find her in this dirt and decay,
To the grim one my bill I could pay
But see here is another in illness soon to be gone,
Oh why should death bother, a bum is bum
Dr. Francis Tumblety:
Plague ridden am I, due to my trip to the slums
But soon I face my end, for death cannot be escaped
The Grim Reaper:
Oh hello my dear doctor, how do you do?
I owe you in life's years and I sure shall repay
You know you murdered the wrong young woman,
She was not soon to die, she was about to recover from illness
So I owe you another fifty years of fever, pain anguish and solitude,
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Dr. Francis Tumblety:
Nooo!
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