The Key
Emilie Autumn

I hear her footsteps running towards me down the hall
And by the lantern light I see her body fall
She reaches out to me, the Ward Key in her hand
She speaks to me in noises I don’t understand
The key that taunted me, the key that drove me mad
The key that murdered any freedom I once had
Is offered to me now, can this be but a dream?
My trance is broken by this woman’s dying scream
The key now in my hand from Quarantine I race
And when I reach the landing every ghostly face
Is waiting for me there commanding me to RUN
The walls are lifting, lockdown’s already begun
The staircase shatters as my fate I fly to meet
The wood is splintering beneath my stocking feet
At last I’m past the gate, at last I’m at the cell
That’s kept me from the sun and hidden me in Hell
The key that locked us in is now what sets us free
The inmates have emerged and now they look to me
To lead them to the light, to lead them to the door
But as we flee I trip and fall down to the floor
Now, as I hit the ground, as painfully I land
The key for which I’ve waited years shoots from my hand
Then, quick as lightning strikes, the Doctor’s heavy shoe
Comes down upon the key concealing it from view
His eyes are burning red with madness, this is when
He picks it up and turns to lock us in again
I leap upon him for I’ve nothing left to lose
He overpowers me and asks the girls to choose
He runs his blade across my throat as if to say
That he will take my life if they don’t walk away
Retreat they do at once, without a second thought
They only know that we were free and now we’re not
And then I feel my darling Annie’s Master Key
From all those years ago, still tied above my knee
It glows against my skin but doesn’t cause me pain
What happens next I cannot possibly explain
It pulls me from the floor, it pulls me towards the gate
It fits into the lock and every last inmate
Is breathless as the bars swing open with a creak
And no one’s seen to move, and no one’s heard to speak
Then, all at once, the clock from fifty floors below
Is loudly striking four, and suddenly I know
What must be done – there can be no one left alive
The Doctor’s all must die if we are to survive
It’s Time to show our strength
It’s Time that we unite
It’s Time to change the game
It’s Time we learn to fight
It’s Time this house is ours
It’s Time we take it back
It’s Time for bloody war
IT’S TIME FOR THE ATTACK!


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Lyrics by Emilie Autumn

  306   306 [*]   4 o'Clock   A Letter From A Friend (Poem)   A Plea to the Dying (Poem)   A Strange Device   Absynthe   Across The Sky   Alas (The Knight)   All My 'Lovin   All My Lovin'   All My Loving   Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life   Asleep   Asleep (The Smiths cover)   At What Point Does A Shakespeare Say (Poem)   Be Silent, Be Still   Best Safety Lies In Fear   Blackbird Sonnets (Poem)   Bohemian Rhapsody   Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)   By The Sword   By The Sword (Poem)   Castle Down   Chambermaid   Chambermaid [Album Version]   Close (Poem)   Come Away   Constant   Crazy He Calls Me   Dead is the New Alive   Dead is the New Alive [*]   Dead is the New Alive [Manipulator Mix]   Delirium   Didn't (Poem)   Don't Blame Me   Don't Blame Me   Dreams   Empty (Poem)   Epilogue   Epilogue: What If   Ever   Everybody's Girl (Poem)   Excerpts From The Upcoming Book   Faces Like Mine   Fight Like A Girl   Find Me A Man   Funny How Things Change   Funny How Things Change (Poem)   Gaslight   Gaslight Reprise   Gentlemen Aren't Nice   Gentlemen Aren't Nice   Geordie   Ghost (Poem)   Girls Just Wanna Have Fun   Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Asylum remix by Inkydus...   Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Bad Girl remix by The F...   Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper cover)   Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Harpsichord Rendezvous)   Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Teatime remix by EA)   Girls! Girls! Girls!   Gloomy Sunday   God Help Me   Goodbye (Poem)   Goodnight, Sweet Ladies   Gothic Lolita   Gothic Lolita [*]   Heard It All   Hell is Empty   Hollow Like My Soul   Homesick Sonnets (Poem)   How Strange   How To Break A Heart (Poem)   I Could Jump the Track (Poem)   I Cried For You (Poem)   I Didn't Mean You (Poem)   I Don't Care Much   I Don't Understand   I Don't Care Much   I Know It's Over (The Smiths cover)   I Know It's Over   I Know Where You Sleep   I Know Where You Sleep [*]   I Saved The World Today (The Eurythmics cover)   I Want My Innocence Back   I Want My Innocence Back   I Want My Innocence Back [*]   If (Poem)   If I Burn   If You Could Only Know (Poem)   If You Feel Better   If You Feel Better (Poem)   In a World of My Own   In Praise of Cyrano   In Praise Of Cyrano (Poem)   In Reality   In The Lake   Is It My Body   Is It My Body (Alice Cooper cover)   Juliet   Jump The Track (Poem)   Lady Anne   Largo For Violin   Let It Die   Let The Record Show   Liar   Liar (Manic Depressive Mix by ASP)   Liar (Medical Mix by Angelspit)   Liar (Murder Mix by Brendon Small)   Liar [*]   Little Boy (Poem)   Mad Girl   Mad Girl (live)   Manipulation   Manipulation (Poem)   Marry Me   Medicate With Tea   Misery Loves Company   Misery Loves Company [*]   Miss Lucy Had Some Leeches   My Fairweather Friend   Nearer Than You (Poem)   Never Tasted Tears (Poem)   Never You Mind   O Mistress Mine   On a Day...   On Artistic Integrity (Poem)   One Foot in Front of the Other   Opheliac   Opheliac [*]   Organ Grinder   Photographic Memory   Poem: At What Point Does a Shakespeare Say   Prick Goes The Scorpion's Tail   Prologue   Prologue: Across the Sky   Rant 2 (Poem)   Rant I (Poem)   Rapunzel   Rapunzel Sonnets (Poem)   Remember   Revelry   Rose Red   Russian Bride   Save You   Scavenger   Second Hand Faith   Shalott   Shalott [*]   Smirking Girl (Poem)   So Many Fools (Poem)   Space   Space (Poem)   Start Another Story   Swallow   Take The Pill   Tea Will Rock You   Thank God I'm Pretty   Thank God I'm Pretty   The Art Of Suicide   The Ballad of Mushroom Down (Poem)   The Day You Love (Poem)   The Muse (Poem)   The Music I Heard Once (Poem)   The One (Poem)   The Star Spangled Banner   Time For Tea   Try My Best (Poem)   Two Masks (Poem)   Visions (Poem)   We Want Them Young   What If   What Right Have I   What Right Have I? (Poem)   What Will I Remember?   Willow   Willow [Instrumental]   With Every Passing Day (Upstairs, Downstairs cover...   Woman (Poem)   Words From "The Asylum"   Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Flaming Lips cove...

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