VERSE

Through the town wove a vein of stone

In the shape of our children's bones

Led to rest on a summer's day

Abreast, to Calvary

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Eyes entranced by a rat parade

Wept the stream wherein drowned the plague

None the Weser, what fools were we!

To part the gates for He...

CHORUS

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

All the children go to heaven

Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve

Every rat shall rot in hell!

VERSE

Town of ash caught the wind and flew

Through the valleys where Static bloomed

Scouring for a means to see

The door without a key

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Starlit eyes deign to scathe the moth

But their light 'lumes the entry sought!

Soothe the cries of the girl whose gaze

Will mark the end of days

CHORUS

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

All the children go to heaven

Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve

Every rat shall rot in hell!

BRIDGE

Wandering sheep

Forgetting their fold

Uprooting kinderkoppen

From the road

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What are these bones

But a new mask to don?

Hollow whiteness

Veiled by Curtain facade

VERSE

We ordained we had found the one!

And at long last our quest was done!

Stolen Stargirl would light our way

Into the Static Gate

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But something must have gone awry—

Past the threshold we lost Her eyes!

Training ears to the sound of pipes,

We navigate the night

CHORUS

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

All the children go to heaven

Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve

Every rat shall rot in hell!

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We who mourn the kin of Hameln

Sought to warn with an invasion!

Lured back by Piper's will,

All shall return to Great Nil...

VERSE

What became of the stolen Star?

Some say She walks the skies above

Cleft to Valley by Shepherd's crook

(Our final disciple)

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'Tis no matter—the deed is done

Now they dance in a land of fun!

Static thrives in a town reborn

Beyond the blue curtain...