[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] [?] 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