[00:07.43]Rapt by a vision of gluttony and avarice
[00:13.62]Stupefied, agog at the baby king
[00:18.27]But still we croon through the night
[00:23.08]Oh my stars I wish us well
[00:26.28]Sway in the light
[00:29.26]Resuscitate the nightingale
[00:32.77]Try to be kind 
[00:37.88]I long to be
[00:39.77]Elusive phantom
[00:44.45]Ethereal vision
[00:47.58]Of a trace of the shadow of a conscience
[00:54.28]The *******'s no longer in the mood
[01:00.64]The novelist’s forgotten how to brood
[01:05.43]Color in the midnight
[01:07.20]Color in the midnight blue
[01:12.51]Color in the real life
[01:14.60]Color in the midnight blue
[01:19.95]The stage was set
[01:22.09]He wouldn't forget the place that they first met
[01:24.83]Now a dragnet
[01:26.93]Her palms are wet with cold sweat and yet
[01:29.68]No fear now, no doubt
[01:33.57]Her conscience was steady
[01:34.94]Without a route for any way out
[01:37.96]She scouted the room once more
[01:40.28]Then a secret, sweet and safe 
[01:42.61]From life's downpour outdoors
[01:45.67]A place that they had explored 
[01:47.13]Every pore and contour
[01:48.47]Waking both heartsore 
[01:50.95]And ready to ignore the rain
[01:53.74]And the pain of trying to feign 
[01:55.54]Love that had waned
[01:57.79]Something once sacred and profane
[02:00.23]Had become impossible to sustain
[02:02.99]So now only she remained
[02:05.91]Dissolving in the twilight's afterglow
[02:11.76]Breathing in the ether soft and slow
[02:17.59]Blurry-eyed and slurring empty hymns
[02:23.32]Reality embraced by phantom limbs
[02:29.52]Reflections of the swans out on the lake
[02:35.29]Envision something real by mistake
[02:41.32]The venom in the veins so discreet
[02:47.38]The poison in the apple, sickly sweet
[02:52.77]Reality distortion field, carried ad nauseum
[03:01.11]Reality distortion field, carried ad nauseum
[03:10.56]The anger a scythe
[03:12.02]A blight on her otherwise shiny white life
[03:15.37]What's done was done and now - be numb?
[03:19.06]No, she's the sum 
[03:19.73]Of generations of strong worded songs Speaking against wrongs
[03:23.79]Her women sang along 
[03:24.96]And so would she 
[03:27.40]And her finely tuned cutting machine
[03:29.98]That teemed with feelings of being 
[03:31.86]And gave her reasons to feel serene
[03:34.65]Her dreams so dark but right
[03:37.21]He took her sight
[03:38.90]Started this fight away from the light
[03:42.02]Dissolving in the twilight's afterglow (and now she could plan)
[03:47.64]Breathing in the ether soft and slow (no man could ever understand)
[03:53.56]Blurry-eyed and slurring empty ends (this life was hers to command)
[03:59.51]Reality embraced by phantom limbs (the stage was set)
[04:05.44]Reflections of the swans out on the lake (this time he wouldn't forget)
[04:11.33]Envision something real by mistake (she'd refrain from giving power to pain)
[04:17.52]The venom in the veins so discreet (but only she could remain)
[04:23.44]The poison in the apple, sickly sweet (only she would remain)
[04:28.56]Reality distortion field, carried ad nauseum (reality)
[04:37.18]Reality distortion field, carried ad nauseum (reality)
[04:46.08]Reality distortion field, carried ad nauseum (reality)
[04:55.05]Reality distortion field, carried ad nauseum
[05:04.77]Rapt by a vision of gluttony and avarice
[05:10.29]Stupefied, agog at the baby king