THE PLAGUES SURRENDER

[INTRO — DISTANT BELLS / WHISPERS] One bell… Two bells… Three bells… The streets are empty… The candles burn low… Behind the mask, I hear them calling. [VERSE 1] Black feathers dancing in the midnight rain A city drowning underneath the pain Shutters locked, but the screaming remains Another body carried through the pouring rain I walk these streets where the living hide With herbs and smoke hanging by my side A mask upon my face, a prayer upon my tongue But every patient I have touched is gone The bells keep ringing The graves keep growing And somewhere in the darkness… Something is watching. [PRE-CHORUS] I came to cure them I came to save them But every soul I touch Is taken by the plague I hear it breathing Beneath my mask And now I wonder… How long can I last? [CHORUS] THE PLAGUE IS COMING! Black death upon the wind THE PLAGUE IS COMING! And no one can defend The doctor wears a mask But the mask can’t hide the truth The cure was never coming… The plague was coming through! THE PLAGUE! THE PLAGUE! THE PLAGUE’S SURRENDER! [VERSE 2] I saw the children disappear in the night Mothers praying underneath candlelight Priests screaming prayers that the heavens ignored While death kept knocking at every door The wealthy bought their way behind their walls But sickness doesn’t care who stands tall Kings and beggars rot beneath the same sky When the plague arrives, everybody dies My hands are shaking My breath is thin Something underneath my skin… Is crawling. [PRE-CHORUS] I came to cure them I came to save them But every soul I touch Is taken by the plague The fever rises My vision fades And now I hear the dead… Calling out my name. [CHORUS] THE PLAGUE IS COMING! Black death upon the wind THE PLAGUE IS COMING! And no one can defend The doctor wears a mask But the mask can’t hide the truth The cure was never coming… The plague was coming through! THE PLAGUE! THE PLAGUE! THE PLAGUE’S SURRENDER! [BRIDGE — QUIET / HAUNTING] Take off the mask… No… Take off the mask… I can’t. Look at your hands… They’re black. Look at your eyes… They’re dead. [BUILD] I’ve worn this mask for twenty years… I’ve watched a thousand people die… I thought I was the one who stood between them and death. I was wrong. [BREAKDOWN] FUNERAL BELL I AM THE CURE! BOOM I AM THE DISEASE! BOOM I AM THE DOCTOR! BOOM I AM THE PLAGUE! THE MASK COMES OFF! Massive instrumental hit. AND GOD LOOKS AWAY! [FINAL VERSE] Now I walk alone through the streets I once knew Nothing left alive, nothing left to lose My blackened hands reach toward the sky And the last bell rings as the ravens fly The city surrendered The doctors are gone The candles went dark But the plague carries on I finally understand What it wanted from me… It never wanted the city. It wanted me. [FINAL CHORUS] THE PLAGUE HAS WON! There is nowhere left to run THE PLAGUE HAS WON! The dying and the dead are one I came here as a doctor I leave here as a ghost I spent my life fighting death… Only to become its host! THE PLAGUE! THE PLAGUE! THE PLAGUE’S SURRENDER! THE PLAGUE! THE PLAGUE! IT LIVES FOREVER! [OUTRO — WHISPERED] One bell… Two bells… Three bells… The mask is empty. The streets are silent. The plague doctor is gone… But the plague remains.