The Key Emilie Autumn

[EMILY]
I hear her footsteps running towards me down the hall
And by the lantern light I see her body fall
She reaches out to me, the Ward Key in her hand
She speaks to me in noises I don’t understand

The key that taunted me, the key that drove me mad
The key that murdered any freedom I once had
Is offered to me now, can this be but a dream?
My trance is broken by this woman’s dying scream

The key now in my hand, from Quarantine I race
And when I reach the landing every ghostly face
Is waiting for me there, commanding me to run
The walls are lifting, lockdown’s already begun

The staircase shatters as my fate, I fly to meet
The wood is splintering beneath my stockinged feet
At last, I’m past the gate, at last I’m at the cell
That’s kept me from the sun and hidden me in hell

The key that locked us in is now what sets us free
The inmates have emerged and now they look to me
To lead them to the light, to lead them to the door
But as we flee, I trip and fall down to the floor