From castle shadows on the Rhine To Whitby's cliffs where darkness climbs The count descends his marble stairs While London sleeps unaware Each film reel spins the same sweet lie That monsters live and heroes die But we know who we're rooting for When fangs appear behind the door In the flicker of the silver screen You become the thing you've always been Fangs and cape and ancient eyes Beautiful and mesmerized Step into the camera's light Embrace your nature of the night The boys who hunt on Boardwalk nights Leather jackets, neon lights Santa Carla calls the lost Every soul has its own cost From Lugosi's cape to Oldman's tears We've loved the dark for all these years The camera shows us who we are When moonlight outshines every star In the flicker of the silver screen You become the thing you've always been Fangs and cape and ancient eyes Beautiful and mesmerized Step into the camera's light Embrace your nature of the night In shadows cast by cinema light Where legends walk both day and night The actor fades but myth remains Forever flowing through our veins Now the mirror shows no lie When you paint those kohl-rimmed eyes What the screen taught you is true There's a vampire hiding in you Every day is Halloween Living out the silver screen Why pretend just once a year When the darkness draws you near In the flicker of the silver screen You become the thing you've always been Fangs and cape and ancient eyes Beautiful and mesmerized Step into the camera's light Embrace your nature of the night Step into the light Embrace the night Max Schreck lives...
