Cleopatra's Needle Lyrics


Baring witness to the killings

Of innocent peasants

Jack the Ripper has been a busy young man

White chapel district

Has gone down in history

As hallowed ground

Social butterflies and baristers

Run pissed in the streets

Under Cleopatra's needle

Media circus

Of sleuth and of surgeons

Would play the clown

Jack would never

Come down

Maidens be warned

Stay out of the shadows

The smell of fear is the night

Philanthropists carriages

Gallop through London

While the chapel is burning bright

The streets full of poor

Demographical whore

Pay the price of the lamb to be slaughtered

The kitchen is open

And Jack's at the table

Sipping bloody red wine

With your daughter

Triumphal symbol

Watching the humans drown

Wandering vessel

But soon to be found

Under the needle

Frozen in fear

You have become

Sealing the curses

A diabolical creation

Of the crimson slum

Opium's served as the victim's last meal

Moonlit and left on display

Never a clue shall never reveal

Surrounded by the rats where she lay

Triumphal symbol

Watching the humans drown

Wandering vessel

But soon to be found

Under the needle

Frozen in fear

You have become

Sealing the curses

A diabolical creation

Of the crimson slum

Maidens be warned

Stay out of the shadows

The smell of fear is the night

Philanthropists carriages

Gallop through London

While the chapel is burning bright

Baring witness to the killings

Of innocent peasants

Jack the Ripper has been a busy young man

White chapel district

Has gone down in history

As hallowed ground

Social butterflies and baristers

Run pissed in the streets

Under Cleopatra's needle

Media circus

Of sleuth and of surgeons

Would play the clown

Jack would never

Come down