Emilie Autumn - The Key Lyrics
I hear her footsteps running towards me down the hallAnd by the lantern light I see her body fallShe reaches out to me, the Ward Key in her handShe speaks to me in noises I don’t understandThe key that taunted me, the key that drove me madThe key that murdered any freedom I once hadIs offered to me now, can this be but a dream?My trance is broken by this woman’s dying screamThe key now in my hand from Quarantine I raceAnd when I reach the landing every ghostly faceIs waiting for me there commanding me to RUNThe walls are lifting, lockdown’s already begunThe staircase shatters as my fate I fly to meetThe wood is splintering beneath my stocking feetAt last I’m past the gate, at last I’m at the cellThat’s kept me from the sun and hidden me in HellThe key that locked us in is now what sets us freeThe inmates have emerged and now they look to meTo lead them to the light, to lead them to the doorBut as we flee I trip and fall down to the floorNow, as I hit the ground, as painfully I landThe key for which I’ve waited years shoots from my handThen, quick as lightning strikes, the Doctor’s heavy shoeComes down upon the key concealing it from viewHis eyes are burning red with madness, this is whenHe picks it up and turns to lock us in againI leap upon him for I’ve nothing left to loseHe overpowers me and asks the girls to chooseHe runs his blade across my throat as if to sayThat he will take my life if they don’t walk awayRetreat they do at once, without a second thoughtThey only know that we were free and now we’re notAnd then I feel my darling Annie’s Master KeyFrom all those years ago, still tied above my kneeIt glows against my skin but doesn’t cause me painWhat happens next I cannot possibly explainIt pulls me from the floor, it pulls me towards the gateIt fits into the lock and every last inmateIs breathless as the bars swing open with a creakAnd no one’s seen to move, and no one’s heard to speakThen, all at once, the clock from fifty floors belowIs loudly striking four, and suddenly I knowWhat must be done – there can be no one left aliveThe Doctor’s all must die if we are to surviveIt’s Time to show our strengthIt’s Time that we uniteIt’s Time to change the gameIt’s Time we learn to fightIt’s Time this house is oursIt’s Time we take it backIt’s Time for bloody warIT’S TIME FOR THE ATTACK!
