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Late at night he works in secret

The barracks are breathing slowly in, out, in, out?.

Never dreaming of what's in the making

Armies of darkness, of the living dead

Nobody asks them if they want to come back

His son is far away from all that

A beautiful girl in his arm

No soldier is he, but a lover

One night, the two men come to fists over her

And the lovers flee, borne away on the swarthy back

Of the two? wheeled eagle over rough roads

She's tickled, so she tickles him

And his arms let go of the eagle's wings

The beast lunges ahead, topples forward

And the beauty is flung from eagle's back

Into the comfortless arms of an oak,

Lost to him

Strolling head long his prize in his grasp, into the barracks

He finds the secret of his father's dark invention:

Like the air we breathe to keep us alive

The magic ether will become her air

And the couple can escape to live

She awakens as if from a long sleep

Hardly knows what has hit her

His story of death does not calm her hunger

They make love in the cold heat of this night

But only he feels satisfied

Torn between hunger for his blood

And longing for his love

She tears herself up rather than harm him

The spell lifts! 'and he is safe

Meanwhile dark armies prepare rid him of her

His own father holds a gun on them

Each enlaced by painless ties

A threat is launched, the boy let's go

A moment later she is but a memory

In a trance, he matches forward

As if directly from above

And silently enters the camp

Tracing an invisible line

He finds her cage and opens it

With one click a hundred cages open at once

Hundreds of the living dead no longer commanded

They swarm the barracks looking for an out

The poor boy feels cold teeth in his arm

The sickle of death?

As his senses begin to fade

He takes his love by the hand

And fearing no longer devil or man

They face the leaping flames tranquilly

Inferno immolating their half? grown hearts

They vaporise purified