Key: E minor
Verse 1
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Ohohohohoh
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Em
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(Gregorian chants)
Verse 2
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The black plague has struck
Diseased eyes roll upwards
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As if knowing which direction
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their souls will travel
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(Bring out your dead)
A woman in black cries
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And monks moan en masse
Verse 3
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Ohohohohohoh
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upon the castle door
For it is safer inside the wall
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s
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Their knocking pounds a dull tone across the quiet,
deserted courtyard
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The bodies of unfortuates bloat in the hot
sun outside the castle walls
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And ones ignorant of all facts plunder the diseased
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corpses for remaining riches.
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Verse 4
walls on the outside
The light from his lamp dancing
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shadows as he moves
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Gives comfort to all he can for dying
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woman and crying man
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(Unclean)
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Did man ever deserve this death?
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And not all will die, just the poor
For the rich are inside
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the castle walls
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And he knows he could be with them
And they laugh at this fool
of a man
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And the bell tolls
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on
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Verse 5
(Unclean)
And many deaths and many
Many tears have been cry cried but in vain
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For tears can never erase
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Only time has that talent
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The only element of sanity that the people look
to him for answers and he answers all
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And the bell tolls on inside
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the castle wall
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(Bring out your
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dead)
Verse 6
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Life for the people flowers again
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did once before
And only silence is heard
wonder what happened within
In their bones they feel
something is wrong
The bell has been silent
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For many days not one soul has stirred from the stone
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No one came and no one went
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A
Fear can do many strange things
Their mouths burnt and bellys caked dry
Not one person put a foot outside
No one had that much courage
For they feared the peasants
So they played it safe and
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But one by one they perished and died
Outro 1
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