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Hear a tale part frightening

And half the tale enlightening

A brave little girl's great sacrifice

To hold back the hordes of Hell

I was called upon

To see little Anneliese

Back in the freezing Winter of 1969

She was suffering

Complaining of voices

Chains were restraining

The girl to her bed

Such menacing messages

I can't believe the things she said

Fiendish faces haunting her mind

Hallucinations of the hideous kind

Her room was empty, but oh the smell

From the filth

She told me stories so hard to believe

Wicked possession from six entities

CHORUS:

Why can't we save poor Anneliese?

Dear tell us what's wrong

What good is calling on a priest?

Possession too strong

We need to save her from the beast

Girl help us to fight

She's looking frail and feeling weak

A terrible sight

Doctors claiming it's all in her head

Demons draining her face turning red

Beyond the twilight

I saw the evil in her eyes

Waiting, hiding the devil inside

Changing places, I saw innocent die

Anneliese quit fighting

The entity claiming its prize

Cursing, writhing, the

 room cam alive

Flashing a fleeting last sinister smile

REPEAT CHORUS

SOLO: BROGDEN/GARCIA

Accusations, they started to fly

Prosecution, we didn't know why

Such inhumanity

I could not believe my own eyes

The exorcism, they just didn't buy

They sent us to prison for taking her life

Unburied secrets were exhumed

They could not hide the truth

They opened her coffin to see what's inside

Her corpse was still perfect

Ten Years had passed by

Her body protected by the Holy Divine

REPEAT CHORUS

Her very last words to the priest

Right before her release

Were 'tell my mother I am not afraid'

From Mother's bedroom she can see

Poor little Anneliese

Her tombstone less than 50 feet

From that very house!