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Just something I put together after a brief stopover in scenic Dark Astoria


Naturally set to "Hotel California"

Quote:On a dark foggy highway, cold wind in your hair.
Hazy feel of eerieness, drifting through the air.
Up ahead in the distance, you see a shimmering light.
Your head grows heavy and your sight grows dim,
You need to stop for the night...

There she stands in the doorway, beneath the ringing bell.
You're thinking to yourself, is this heaven or is this hell?
As she lights up a candle, she shows you the way.
There's voices all around you, you think you hear them say...

Welcome to shadowy Dark Astoria...
It's such a lovely place. (Such a lovely place)
You've such a lovely face. (Such a lovely face)
Plenty of room in shadowy Dark Astoria...
Any time of year...
We will take you here...

Things start getting twisted...
As you follow her round the bend...
She's got lots of pretty, pretty boys...
That she calls friends...
Watch them dance through the courtyard...
Deep in the dark and dread...
Some dance with the living...
Some dance with the dead...

As you call out towards them...
Asking for the time...
You hear them say that they've been here since 1969...
And still those voices are echoing
From not so far away...
All around you in the depths of the night...
They continue to say...

Welcome to shadowy Dark Astoria...
It's such a lovely place. (Such a lovely place)
You've such a lovely face. (Such a lovely face)
Plenty of room in shadowy Dark Astoria...
Please, don't you fear...
Please, won't you stay here?

No reflections in the mirrors...
No souls in their eyes...
As she says "We are all just prisoners here..."
"Of His dark device..."
And in the Master's chambers...
Things gather for the feast.
They stab it with their steely knives
As they sacrifice it to the Beast...

Last thing you remember...
You were running for the door.
But you can't find the passage back
To the place you were before.

"Relax," says the Tall Man...
"We're always prepared to receive."
"You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave..."

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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."