By The Drop

Awoken in a dreary chamber
Lit only by dark embers
Shadows creep, in darkness hide
They are sent to claim my mind
For by the drop, I am to die

So strapped am I to rotting wood
To pay my dues, just as I should
Its death I call while here I lie
A cold murderer will claim life
For by the drop, I am to die

And where they carefully strapped my head
A drain lies silent overhead
Holding captive fatal frost
To who’s absent mercy I am lost
For by the drop, I am to die

And so it starts, one by one
Gentle bullets from a silent gun
The first one falls between my eyes
Ten strokes, the next is close behind
For by the drop, I am to die

Glacial shots roll down my face
Next ones follow to the same place
A grinning fiend comes in to see
He knows what my fate shall be
For by the drop, I am to die

I cannot think nor hold a thought
My head is numb, my mind is wrought
With thoughts of heaven, hell I’ve seen
In madness men attempt to screen
So by the drop, I am to die

Wicked villain! Smiling fiend!
Devil sent from the unseen!
Oh merciless fate by demon men!
Slows the process of my descent!
For by the drop, I am to die.

My mind leaves me far behind
As killer chill, my body finds
For by the drop, I’m soon to die.