Emerencia Lyrics - The Puppet Master - King Diamond

The shadows are thick and old 

I'm searching the dark for my love 

Behind the theater of puppet shows 

I find the stairs to the cellar below 

Hiding where the shadows rule 

A door opens below 

The moon is high above 

300 pounds of flesh, that woman I know 

Oh, it's the puppet master's wife 

She pulls a cart behind her 

Oh Emerencia, where are you going with that knife? 

Time to kill, it's time for her nightly thrill 

Oh Emerencia, where are you going with that knife? 

Deep in the night through the narrowest streets 

I follow her every step 

She is searching for innocent victims 

Oh Emerencia, in an alley a homeless is sleeping 

Approaching without a sound, and then, oh no 

How strange it is, to see, a life that slips away 

How strange it is, in darkness blood is black not red 

The knife is still deep in his chest 

Gotta keep the blood in its nest 

She wraps him in the sack she brought 

She better leave before she gets caught 

Through the streets dark and old 

Through the streets, no one must know 

Only the moon and I 

And none of us will ever tell 

She pulls the body off the cart 

Back at the theater, down into the dark 

Oh Emerencia, I wonder why you left the door ajar 

Deep in the night through the narrowest hallways 

I follow her every step 

There's a light from a doorway ahead of us 

Where did she go, where did she go? No 

What I see is a horror show, then the blow