The Piper Lyrics

The song I play is in a joyous key

Though it often ends in tragedy

It seems I'm always walking in a shadow

Of an impending storm drawing near

So I travel fast outpacing fear

Tempting danger and barely in control

If you follow me down this dark path

You're bound to be scarred and cracked

But if forewarned, you still decide to go

You'll see many forks in the path

And have many chances to turn back

You're choice is harder the farther you follow

I cast no shadow and I leave no tracks

I see no future, forget the past

I carry no weight upon my back

I learn no lessons, I make no pact

I'm the killer in the bushes,

I'm the monster under the bed,

I'm the ghost up in the attic,

I'm the devil waiting ahead

The deeper you follow, the darker the way

For as we continue, the path will fade

gliding any way my wind might blow

Every step we take together

The further you must return untethered

And your return will be more painful and slow

On our way everyone's gone mad

Under the trance of a demon band.

We're never too far from the end of the song

Deep in the bedlam the path is dark

But where there is light, it glows like stars

Exposing monsters tugging at your clothes

I cast no shadow and leave no tracks

I see no future, forget the past

I carry no weight upon my back

I learn no lessons, I make no pact

I'm the killer in the bushes

I'm the monster under the bed

I'm the ghost up in the attic

I'm the devil waiting ahead

Some whispered advice will be contrary

Where dreams and nightmares form reality

Somewhere in the space between the notes

We may be revered or reviled

or watched in awe, frozen in time

In constant judgment by those on our course

When we cross that bridge there's no looking back

And you may blame me at the end of the path

But at any time you could have forged your own

There'll be ghosts, dancing in your mind

While fantasy and fact seem to entwine

And at the next verse I might be gone

I cast no shadow and leave no tracks

I see no future, forget the past

I carry no weight upon my back

I learn no lessons, I make no pact

I'm the killer in the bushes

I'm the monster under the bed

I'm the ghost up in the attic

I'm the devil waiting ahead

I cast no shadow and leave no tracks

I see no future, forget the past

I carry no weight upon my back

I learn no lessons, I make no pact

I'm the killer in the bushes

I'm the monster under the bed

I'm the ghost up in the attic

I'm the devil waiting ahead

I'm the killer in the bushes

I'm the monster under the bed

I'm the ghost up in the attic

I'm the devil waiting ahead