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