The city gates are closed, safe walls and buildings of smoke As the bell’s doom tolls, day dies, shadows grow You feeling safe now? Whilst under, fires bellow The river glistens. What shady secrets lie below? Eye for eye, don’t you know you reap what you sow? Scratch the surface of this ideal community Men wearing masks of respectability Away from mad crowds, the doctor ceases to hide A razor glares bright, a demon in disguise Life for life, it takes but one to unravel all our laws
Bloodstains in the night Black by gaslight
White pavement screeching, each night a deadly countdown As vice has leaked in, hear the music of the night Beasts with no names, faces drowned in ruby red Exhale whispers of fear, and awe, and hate Grime and crime, perpetual dark beneath the fog-clogged sky
Fancy machine, a righteous dream In an ocean of chaos we aim for islands of order
Fortune in our future, Glorious peak of progress Rise and fall, new Babylon Pride crumbling down till even ruins turn to sand
Stony-hearted mother, fiends round every corner Decadence plagues the air Street after street, drinking tears And vaporous sighs of despair
Fancy machine, a fallacious dream We barred windows, locked every door Building a sanctuary that turned out to be fertile grounds for hidden sins
Scratch the surface of this ideal community Men wearing masks of respectability Beasts with no name, faces drowned in ruby red Exhale whispers of fear, and awe, and hate Eye for eye, don’t you know you reap what you sow?
Desperate preys in the night Reason’s gone wild Predators in the night So close behind Broken men in the night Die by gaslight
Roam the pits, flee the streets Where the beasts, men or freaks Are killing by gaslight / Are dying by gaslightTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
