Vampire State Lyrics

Come one come all to the midnight ball

There's trouble brewing in the banquet hall

Take a leap through the line and you'll be just fine

I've seen your face all over the unwanted signs

Have a toast to your host who's got the least

He's secretly something of an awful beast

With a bulletproof plan for the also-rans

And an awful lot of time upon his idle hands

Everybody's going on about the end of the world

In fact they seem a little excited

It's a party and your pity's invited

Dinner and dessert provided

Vampire State - home to all the miscreated

Where nightmares are related and dreams annihilated

Vampire State - pierce the moonlight with your steeple

We're not your kind of people anymore

Slow down look around take in all the sounds

Your cup ranneth over 'til it nearly drowned

Take a few small sips leave a few tall tips

And you can keep on dancing when the record skips

Don't you try to sneak out of any exit routes

'Cause the scent that you're dispensing is a sense of doubt

If you show off your back you're just an easy snack

You must impress upon them that you're always on attack

Everybody keeps talking while their mouths are full

But you know every word they're saying

And you get the feeling you'll be staying

It's an urge you can't resist obeying

Vampire State - where the jawline meets the collar

It's a real hoot & holler of opulence and squalor

Vampire State - rising over the horizon

You'll wish that you'd been wise enough to run

High on that heathen tower clock strikes the midnight hour

Down from the belfry comes a cloud of wings

Kaleidoscope of teeth and shadows underneath

Eclipsing all these wretched things

But at the end of the night if your cards are right

You might get out of there with only just a couple of bites

Keep your sleeves rolled down when you reach the ground

And no one else will have to know when you get back to town

Everybody looks different in the light of the day

At the masquerade's adjourning

But when the midnight oil is burning

You know that you will be returning

Vampire State - climb the hundred-story talon

A crimson Irwin Allen exploding by the gallon

Vampire State - calling all the anti-saviors

Be on your worst behavior at the

Vampire State - dreaded fang as high as mountains

An oozing scarlet fountain a billion served and counting

Vampire State - where the wounds are freshly severed

You'll wish that you had never heard its name