[Spoken]
Then the blackness loomed close up against my skin, snuffing out even the evil whiteness to those damming lips, driving all sensibility into retreat, in a mad rush of the senses and the soul into Hades!

[Verse 1 (sung)]
I forever dream within a dream
Of a certain city in the sea
As I walk the valley of unrest
Behind this mask of crimson death

I long for a loss of breath
And a most dire predicament
Murders in the rue morgue
Silence and shadows what I adore

[Chorus]
Well I can't explain just how it feels
The thoughts of my premature burial
Inside this oblong box I lie
With the hopes I'll be buried alive

[Verse 2]
The oval portrait upon the wall
Will someday cause this house to fall
The power of words left unsaid
As I join the spirits of the dead
[Chorus]
Well I can't explain just how it feels
The thoughts of my premature burial
Inside this oblong box I lie
With the hopes I'll be buried alive

[Spoken]
As they lifted and bore me down, down to a place of blackness and dampness and silence... silence...

[Verse 3 (sung)]
Well, I'm the man who's
Used up
Washed up
Bricked up

Descent into
Maelstrom
Bedlam
Redrum

Bet the Devil
My head
Misled
Bloodshed

Heart under the floorboard
Beats for
Lenore
Nevermore
[Chorus x2]
Well I can't explain just how it feels
The thoughts of my premature burial
Inside this oblong box I lie
With the hopes I'll be buried alive