| Let me tell you a story to chill the bones
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| about a things that I saw
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| One night wandering in the everglades
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| I'd one drink but no more
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| I was rambling, enjoying the bright moonlight
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| Gazing up at the stars
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| Not aware of a presence so near to me
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| Watching my every move
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| Feeling scared and I fell to my knees
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| As something rushed me from the trees
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| Took me to an unholy place
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| And that is where I fell from grace
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| Then they summoned me over to join in with them
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| To the dance of the dead
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| In to the circle of fire I followed them
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| In to the middle I was led
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| As if time had stopped still I was numb with fear
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| But still I wanted to go
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| And the blaze of the fire did no hurt upon me
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| As I walked onto the coals
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| And I felt I was in a trance
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| And my spirit was lifted from me
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| And if only someone had the chance
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| To witness what happened to me
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| And I danced and I pranced and I sang with them
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| All had death in their eyes
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| Lifeless figures they were undead all of them
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| They had ascended from hell
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| As I danced with the dead
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| my free spirit was laughing and howling down at me
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| Below my undead body just danced the circle of dead
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| Until the time came to reunite us both
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| My spirit came back down to me
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| I didn't know if I was alive or dead
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| As the others all joined in with me
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| By luck then a skirmish started
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| And took the attention away from me
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| When they took their gaze from me
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| Was the moment that I fled
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| I ran like hell faster than the wind
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| But behind I did not glance
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| One thing that I did not dare
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| Was to look just straight ahead
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| When you know that your time has come around
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| You know you'll be prepared for it
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| Say your last goodbyes to everyone
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| Drink and say a prayer for it
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| When you're lying in your sleep, when you're lying in your bed
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| And you wake from your dreams to go dancing with the dead
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| When you're lying in your sleep, when you're lying in your bed
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| And you wake from your dreams to go dancing with the dead
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| To this day I guess I'll never know
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| Just why they let me go
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| But I'll never go dancing no more
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| 'Til I dance with the dead |