The Scaffold

[Verse 1] In Orient where wise I was To please the way I live Come give the beggar chance at hand His life is on his lip Three score a thousand times Where once in Amazon Where Eldorado holds the key No keeper holds my hand [Pre-Chorus] Unchain the gate of solitude The ruler says you run Run hard unto the scaffold high Your chance to jump the gun [Chorus] [x2] Oh how high the scaffold grows The plant life of your widow In black lace curtains brought you near From out the plate glass window [Verse 2] The Minotaur with bloody hands Is enraged by the sun Caged he by the corpses Brought forth by the dawn In Orient is as I told The buckshee hangman swears For open crypts to silence Nylon knots to sway by prayer [Pre-Chorus] Unchain the gate of solitude The ruler says you run Run hard unto the scaffold high Your chance to jump the gun [Chorus] [x2] Oh how high the scaffold grows The plant life of your widow In black lace curtains brought you near From out the plate glass window [Outro] In Orient where wise I was To please the way I live Come give the beggar chance at hand His life is on his lip