Citadel

Blacklight corridors of power, lost without a map

We skipped the tripwires, searched for hours

Tiptoed through the traps

We slid through empty rooms with white walls, crystal chandeliers

Carpets we could drown in, bells ringing in my ears

We slipped through borders, skipped the lasers murmuring a code

We'd wade through holds, we'd dodge patrols

Swim through sewers, walked on coals

We climbed the scaffold - hell, they even left the rope

We saw our spinning friends descend - choked

Through passages we danced

We glanced at fat men smoking fat cigars

Who spun their webs on screens

Through telegrams in trays

Candy soldiers raised the table

Wearing labels, muttering curses

Under sheep's' heads, they were naked

From their collars to their (?)cotton socks

And every handshake gave a shock, a buzz, a charge

We saw them stamp with stars with sugar knives

Then they fell into vats of lard

We watched but kept on moving higher?

Higher through the hall of two way mirrors

I spied a boy scout shackled to a chair

Could heard the whip crack "in the mood"

Made a parting in his hair

But still he dared to bait his master

Until the red wheels rolled from room to room to room

We padded past his tomb and kicked a door down

It was the door that said 'no entry'

In the lift we flicked a switch and flew to floor 666

But no one stood there waiting

No guards stood in our path

There was just a window wide open and a note pinned to a chair

It said, "Welcome, friends! You passed the test

And I'm glad you could make it

From here you watch the world go by and

Doesn't it look sad?

And, like me before you,

I'm quite sure that you'll also take a dive so

Come to daddy

Come to daddy

Come to daddy