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Six Nightmares at the Pinball Masquerade Lyrics
When the French maids cigarette turns/burns like a boiling tapeworm
(that was really something baby, that was really somethin' baby)
When the chandeliers shatter,
your guest's gowns turn to tatters,
the portraits just chatter
(that was really somethin' baby, that was really somethin' baby)
Can you feel your sweat beading porcelain?
Your skeleton outgrowing its skin?
It's the pinball masquerade....
Oh Oh Oh I saw the curtains of hair
Oh Oh Oh I saw my fingers tear.
They said:
"we are the six nightmares (oh yeah!)
we are the six nightmares (oh yeah).
Oh Oh Oh I saw the face of a girl
strapped to a poison pear
she said:
"we are the six nightmares (oh yeah!)
we are the six nightmares (oh yeah)"
I saw a millionaire eat his shadow, I saw a water clock beat a widow
they said if one man's life is the sum of something
I want to see your fears materializing!
Where are the six nightmare's at this costume bash?
Open your throat look in the raw gash!
You hold each other by well groomed hands, mumbling prayers to a neglected Jesus.
The maitre d's quiver as they watch you shiver as the mask and the mouth knit into each other.
Our laughter was deafening but our lips but our lips but our lips were trembling.
Now the lady with the peacock mask,
is writhing around in broken monocle glass,
imprisoned like a beetle laying on it's back,
and the man striped up and clawed calico like a cat,
is trapped forever looking like that.
"All your luxury all your well hidden trash
all your empty wine bottles disguised as class
all the bastard children you pay off
all the money it takes for you to get off.
"May I have this dance?"
the dark dealer takes your hands..
All your memories all your forgotten plans/one night stands;
they are the six nightmares at the masquerade.
Oh Oh Oh I saw the mirrors cringe
Oh Oh Oh the choir voices bend
Oh Oh Oh the costume in my skin...
they said
"we are the six nightmares (oh yeah!) we are the six nightmares (oh yeah)
i think this song is about your horrible insides and secrets coming out and fucking you over. hence all the mask metaphors and skeletons out growing skins and crap
i think this song is about your horrible insides and secrets coming out and fucking you over. hence all the mask metaphors and skeletons out growing skins and crap
this song owns all because when jordan actually gets to sing it's a wonderful thing because he sounds so damn good.
if burn piano island could get any better...no it can't. songs like this are why >.<
i think this song is about a wedding. and these reoccuring things that this guy has creeping up on him while hes going through with this wedding.. and its all fake to him... "mumbling prayers to a neglected jesus"- is like the saying of vows. the well groomed hands. is just like how everyone gets done up to get married.
all your luxury, all your well hidden trash, all your empty wine bottles disguised as class, all the bastard children you pay off, all the money it takes for you to get off.
alcoholism, child support, hookers, are all his well hidden trash.
these are like his 6 nightmares. at this wedding... which is the masquerade...
The wedding metaphor makes sense... especially with the liberal use of skeletons as a theme. Who hasn't heard the saying "skeleton in your closet"?
"curtains of hair" Hiding behind vanity... many people's vanity is presented through their hair...
"Peacock mask"' Outward beauty disguising a distasteful inside.
"man striped up... guest gowns" These lyrics make the wedding theme more evident
"Our laughter was deafining but our lips but our lips but our lips were trembling."
hiding your fears, putting up a front. how this fits in. . well. .
"as the mask and the mouth knit into each other. "..that's saying that theyre also putting up a front, everything theyre saying is not actually themselves.. just who they want to be, theyre becoming a life behind a mask, so to speak.
That part about the rich man eating his shadow implies how money dosen't necessarily bring inner happiness, but I'm not sure how this relates to the rest of the song.
The Blood Brothers best song.