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Date of issue: 23.08.2017
Song language: English
Danse Macabre |
From the depths of the vaults, the shadows |
Slowly rise, and peer at the world |
With unseeing eyes |
They crouch; |
they crawl, on bleach-white |
Bones, glistening through their ragged clothes |
Figures with grotesque limbs distorted |
That reach out and touch each passing soul |
The orchestra of death playing for the reaper |
To herald in his clarion call |
They’re the living dead summoned by the dying |
To lead them to the Danse Macabre |
Who has awakened them, from eternal rest |
And who are they calling, to the dance of death |
Who will follow, the Danse Macabre |
Rich or poor, wife or child |
The cloaked figure of death with his scythe has |
Chosen, for only the dying can join the dance |
Only the dying can follow the dancers |
Only they can join the funeral march |
In the dark streets they gather |
The dying together, and then they’ll dance |
The Danse Macabre |
Follow us, follow the dancers |
Leave this world of pain and strife |
Follow us and end the suffering |
We’ll take you to a better life |
Leave the living, follow the dancers |
And join us in this one last dance |
Leave the living, follow the music |
And we’ll all dance the Danse Macabre |
Open cemetery gates beckon, the dancing dead |
And swirling mist welcomes, the funeral cortege |
The vaults gape wide open, as the figures draw |
Near, the pathway to hell, has led them here |
Escorting dancers spin and stagger, grotesque |
Figures in Death’s stage show |
Their movements quicken as the tempo increases |
As faster and faster the rhythm grows |
Music composed in the depths of hell, by the |
Players of the Danse Macabre |
Follow us and end the suffering |
We’ll take you to a better life |
Leave the living, follow the dancers |
And join us in this one last dance |
Leave the living, follow the music |
And we’ll all dance the Danse Macabre |
No crowd to cheer the dead and the dying |
No one to hear their mournful crying |
One by one they dance out of the night |
Out of life and out of sight |
Dancers usher the dying forward |
Ever onward and all in line |
Echoes of the past surround them |
As they fade back into the mistas of time |
As the vaults doors slowly close behind |
Them to the final strains of |
The Danse Macabre |