Come on and dance with me It’s easy if you try Come on and dance with me Follow my lead and glide
Slip in the mud Racing through your blood You’re as good as gone Drifting away with eyes half-shut
Come on and dance with me It’s easy if you try Come on and dance with me You’re stepping out of time
It’s a living Hell Cold sweats, puke, and pain Your skin goes blue When you drink the blackened rain
Do you want to dance with me? It’s easy if you try Come on and dance with me As we fall down from the sky
Oh, come on and dance with me It’s easy if you try Come on now, dance with me And I’ll shiver down your spine
The warmth is gone The rush is fleeting away You’ve nodded off For the last time
You’ve come here to dance with me So give me your best try You've tread upon my dancing shoes It’s now your time to die
Come on and dance with me It’s easy if you try Now, tell me 'bout your dance with death Was it worth the high?
Come on and dance with me--
Title obviously a play on Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death." Where Poe's piece was about plague and disease, this piece is such for drug use, namely ****** (hence "Brown Death," "Blackened rain" "mud," and other such references). Drug use and abuse is an epidemic here in the United States. It is a disease, it can almost be described as a plague. This is just a quick poem (song) about the true hazard of drug use. The high is not worth the side effects, the psychological and physiological addiction, the pain and suffering, and the effects on others the drug(s) cause. (You know exactly what drugs we're talking about here.)