Warcloud - Smoking Room lyrics

According to the legend the German town of Hamelin was infested by rats One day a man dressed in a suit of many colors walked in to Hamelin with a large hat And offered to rid the town of the pests for a sum of money When the mayor agreed the man drew out a pipe nothing funny And walked all along the streets playing a haunting tune of wanting soon All the rats came tumbling out of the houses and followed doom in the hollowed noon Yes the Pied Piper to the Weser river where they all vernacular were drowned In folklore when the Piper claims his reward the big mayor refused to pay him like a hound, the piper swore vengeance Once more he walked along the streets... playing his strange melody Quite like how the rats fell asleep, but this time all the children listened deep And ran from their homes and followed him to a cave in the nearby hill The cave closed up on 'em and the children were still never seen again, for real In Greek mythology the craftsman and inventor Daedalus pending After k**ing his apprentice Talos in envy, he fled from Greece to Crete The Minotaur was a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man A tale haunting in the land And in that time the craftsman Daedalus constructed a labyrinth In which the monster was confined At the order of the King of Crete he built the Minotaur's labyrinth to house the Minotaur, Many hero's wouldn't battle him The labyrinth was an intricate building of chambers and pa**ages Constructed walls high and so as too complex and confuse a person inside Daedalus's creation, the King of Crete eventually forced Athens to pay him An annual tribute of seven youths and seven maidens These he set up inside the labyrinth where they either starved or were devoured Finally Theseus joined a group of the victims and k**ed the Minotaur Rain showered, and Daedalus when the king refused to let him leave Crete Daedalus built wings of wax and feathers unique for himself and his son Icarus Together they flew away, but Icarus flew too close to the sun dunn In that day and fell to his d**h when the wax in his wings melted late then after to Sicily, Daedalus escaped