Welcome my dear please take my hand
It’s wonderful here it’s really quite grand
The moment still, await the hour
The Masquerade for Time’s dead flowers
Dancing and reeling
We move beneath shadows
We’ve hung from the ceiling
All memory receding
Take leave of reason
In step with the bleeding
Chapter & Verse the lyric takes flight
Red is the day as red is the night
The hours pass, the years expire
The dance goes on, we spin on fire
Laughing and screaming
A wide-awake nightmare
Diseased and believing
In mourning-deceiving
Ever in motion and ever in grieving
Welcome my dear please take my hand
It’s wonderful here it’s really quite grand
Dancing and reeling
We move beneath shadows
We’ve hung from the ceiling
All memory receding
Take leave of reason