Stepping on the Devil's Tail

Dia de Muertos/Danse Macabre

[Part I: Dia de Muertos]

Sing a song of sixpence
A pocket full of rye
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie
When the pie was opened
The blackbirds all got high
Sing a song of sixpence
My liver's getting dry
I was with the blackbirds
Baked in a pie

I woke up screaming with sirens in my head
Within a world of death and sin
There were skeletons everywhere, walking down the street
And ghosts were blowing in the wind
I'd been invited to a party called "The Danse Macabre"
And I had a few hours to kill
I figured it would be a good time to get stoned
And binge on some Mexican pills
I smoked a couple joints before I went out
And I let the weed get to my head
Then I stepped outside and at last realized
It was the infamous Day of the Dead

Ghouls were sliding up to me and saying, "Hello"
Before slinking back into the dark
I saw dead men walking with empty, hollow eyes
Saw a woman with a blade through her heart
Jesters were dancing in the white hot sun
And zombies were performing in a band
A sad-eyed Latina matched her glances with mine
Until she stepped forth and took me by the hand
We snuck off in an alley and we stripped each other down
Then went at it like a couple of dogs
And when we wrapped things up, she left in a hurry
While my brain was swimming through a fog

Dia de Muertos
It's fucking with my head
I got too damn high
On the Day of the Dead

I stepped out of the alley with a fire in my brain
I had started on a slow comedown
I needed some uppers to set my head straight
Before I started to fucking drown
I walked up to a man that wore a doctor's mask
He looked like a big fucking bird
I asked for a couple of little black pills
We exchanged hands, he didn't say a word
I looked at the pills before I choked them all down
Three tabs of pure fucking speed
But, since I was headed to a party
Coke would be the thing that I'd need

I continued on the way toward my destination
With the creatures still parading on the streets
Looking for a sign of come ups on the way
Along with any tantalizing treats
Then, a man who had residue scattered on his face
Stepped out of the shadows into view
And he told me that he had the best shit in the city
Guess my hungry-looking eyes were his cue
He opened up a bag and he held it out to show me
It was glittering like specks of gold
Within just five minutes, we did a few lines
And, needless to say, I was sold

On Dia de Muertos
I'm paranoid with dread
Why did I go out
On the Day of the Dead?

Losing my grip
Coming down quick
What the fuck is this shit?
The Day of the Dead
Going insane
Losing my brain
On Dia de Muertos
The Day of the Dead

Quickly, I looked at the time and was cutting pretty close
So, I went in the direction I could hear
Electronic dance music louder than you've ever known
Pleasant to a faded drug fiend's ears
I was coming down a little from the bumps of the coke
So, I popped a couple pills that were blue
Then a small sheet of acid so that I could taste some colors
I was tangled up in orange, red, and blue
I did a few lines and headed to the party
I was high as hell and stumbling around
I had finally arrived at the Danse Macabre
Free to see what all the fuss had been about

Fucking Dia de Muertos
I should've stayed in bed
Instead of going out
On the Day of the Dead
The mythic Dia de Muertos
Has my cock well-fed
As I fuck a few strangers
On the Day of the Dead
And on Dia de Muertos
Lips are bitten bloody red
With parades of skulls and ghouls
On the Day of the Dead
There's a party going on
On the Day of the Dead
Now at The Danse Macabre
On the Day of the Dead

Spooky scary skeletons
Are walking down the street
Coke and pills and Mary Jane
Might knock me off my feet
Spooky scary skeletons
Dance inside the club
It sends a shiver down my spine
When their vocal bones erupt
Spooky scary skeletons
Are drinking up a flood
A Bloody Mary fountain pours
That only looks like blood
These spooky scary skeletons
Are walking through the door
They gather at the Danse Macabre
The kroovy's gonna pour

[Part II: Danse Macabre]

Come to the party
We'll take you away
Straight to a place of excitement
Like little children
You come here to play
Here in our house full of shadows
Come to the party
Come in, sail away
We'll make you believe in our magic
Dia de Muertos
Allows us to play
Here in our garden of darkness

I walked into the party that they called "The Danse Macabre"
There were synths and electronics in my ears
I swear to god that there were spiders crawling their way on the walls
Thanks to the pills inside me filling me with fears
And I got no explanation for the red masks people wore
Evoking images of the Red Death
There was something in the air that I could never try describing
All I got was one slight shortage in my breath
There were men and there were women, every one of them in costume
Everybody had a mask on in the place
Some were strange and some were scary, but I saw lovely woman
That I noticed because I could see her face
She was such a tender beauty, harshly fragile, captivating
With a hundred thousand sparkles in her eyes
We had no idea that soon we would be knee-deep in a gunfight
Mesmerizing us to dance until we died

Then she stepped off the wall
Knew she had me by the balls
My skin could feel the heat upon her breast
Such a sultry senorita
Man, you really should've seen her
We were doing the dance of death
Her name was unknown
She was a showgirl
She wore a red and captivating dress
I twirled and dipped her
Our eyes were tangled
We were doing the dance of death
We were grinding on the floor
She kept begging me for more
Yet we could feel a creeping feeling of distress
She pulled me closer
I saw her smirking
And we were doing the dance of death

We were out there on the floor for what felt like a hundred years
But we somehow weren't worn out in the least
I wanted to step off so I could knock a couple bumps
And it was then I realized we could never leave
Some strange force was compelling me to stay out on the floor
Even though my high was slightly coming down
I had figured out the reason for the masques of the Red Death
When I saw the man in black who wore a crown
I pulled out my stash of pills and popped a couple while we danced
And then I fed a sheet of acid to the girl
She seemed to gain a bit of optimism on her face
But I knew that we were not long for this world
Someone brought out a statue of the serpent Quetzalcoatl
All the creatures in the place began to shout
We never should have tried to come enjoy the Danse Macabre
That's the last thing I had time to figure out

So, we stayed on the floor
But my eyes were on the door
The skeletons and ghosts were taking bets
All the bright colors flew
There was nothing I could do
We were trapped in the dance of death
We kept on dancing
But we were frozen
Felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest
It was the rhythm
We were its prisoners
We were doing the dance of death
And she said we should stop
Her eyes knew that we could not
I ignored her, I was staring at her breasts
While we were trapped there
I knew we'd vanish
And we were doing the dance of death

You do the Danse Macabre and then you find yourself dead
The hypnotizing music really sticks in your head
You'll keep confirming that there isn't a god
The ghosts are gonna getcha with a wink and a nod
I have to do the dance of death until I'm finally dead
A solid fairy tale to fully put me to bed
You wanna cry for help, but fucking nobody cares
And, in the end, there's nothing left but bones

And we just couldn't stop
We would dance until we dropped
Yet there was something in the air that made us tense
All the passing of the minutes
We both knew that we were finished
We were doing the dance of death
We did the tango
We couldn't give up
We were doing the dance of death

She was losing her mind
From the twisting of her spine
And I knew everything around me was a threat
Only fabric stood between us
And she said I was a genius
We were doing the dance of death
I tried to fight it
The creeping madness
At this point, my mind was such a fucking mess
She kept on smiling
She had gone crazy
We were stuck in the dance of death
Trapped out there on the floor
I could not take any more
I was welcoming my everlasting rest
I let it take me
Embraced the madness
And we kept doing the dance of death
We got lost in the dance of death
Yeah, we were killed by the dance of death

The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle on your snout
They eat your eyes
They eat your nose
They eat the jelly between your toes
The worms are out
The worms of night
The Danse Macabre is the worms' delight
The worms crawl out
The worms crawl in
The worms all burrow beneath your skin
The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
At the Danse Macabre
There is no way out