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In this story, King's character is an employee for a crooked, perverted and immoral mayor, Mayor McKenzie. One night, King's character happens to walk in on his boss molesting his daughter, Lucy. King doesn't keep quiet about this, but the mayor testifies that King is insane and has him locked up in Black Hill Sanitarium. After years of being there, King sees his chance to escape and takes it. Now mentally destroyed, King runs off to the local graveyard to hide from the police. Plotting his revenge against Mayor McKenzie, and killing people who pass through the graveyard at night, King is obsessed with a rumor that if you die in a graveyard and lose your head, your soul does not escape, and it lives forever in your head. With that thought in the back of his mind, he kidnaps Lucy McKenzie, the mayor's daughter and calls the mayor out to the graveyard for the two of them to play a game. Eventually, Mayor McKenzie does arrive after King sends a letter to him pretending to be Lucy. Before he arrives, King buries a sleeping Lucy in one of seven empty graves, the tombstones of which read "LUCY FOREVER".
King eventually reveals himself to the Mayor and knocks him out and blindfolds him. When he regains consciousness, King gives him a shovel and tells him to dig up his daughter. There are seven mounds, and he'll have three guesses or else he'll kill both of them. The Mayor gets the third guess right, but King knocks him out cold once more and ties him up to a tombstone.
While the Mayor slowly regains consciousness, King digs up Lucy and takes her out of the coffin while he starts to torture the Mayor. To King's surprise, Lucy ends up pulling down on a cord that sends a sheet of broken glass from a broken chapel window down on King, decapitating him. The legend he was obsessed with turns out to be true, as his living head beckons Lucy not to leave him as she walks away with her Daddy. To his relief, Lucy takes King's head and puts it in her backpack, promising to say "Not a word to Daddy". So King can protect her from Daddy forever.
Album Personnel:
* King Diamond - All Vocals, Keyboards
* Andy LaRocque - Guitars
* Herb Simonsen - Guitars
* Chris Estes - Bass
* Darrin Anthony - Drums
In this story, King's character is an employee for a crooked, perverted and immoral mayor, Mayor McKenzie. One night, King's character happens to walk in on his boss molesting his daughter, Lucy. King doesn't keep quiet about this, but the mayor testifies that King is insane and has him locked up in Black Hill Sanitarium. After years of being there, King sees his chance to escape and takes it. Now mentally destroyed, King runs off to the local graveyard to hide from the police. Plotting his revenge against Mayor McKenzie, and killing people who pass through the graveyard at night, King is obsessed with a rumor that if you die in a graveyard and lose your head, your soul does not escape, and it lives forever in your head. With that thought in the back of his mind, he kidnaps Lucy McKenzie, the mayor's daughter and calls the mayor out to the graveyard for the two of them to play a game. Eventually, Mayor McKenzie does arrive after King sends a letter to him pretending to be Lucy. Before he arrives, King buries a sleeping Lucy in one of seven empty graves, the tombstones of which read "LUCY FOREVER".
King eventually reveals himself to the Mayor and knocks him out and blindfolds him. When he regains consciousness, King gives him a shovel and tells him to dig up his daughter. There are seven mounds, and he'll have three guesses or else he'll kill both of them. The Mayor gets the third guess right, but King knocks him out cold once more and ties him up to a tombstone.
While the Mayor slowly regains consciousness, King digs up Lucy and takes her out of the coffin while he starts to torture the Mayor. To King's surprise, Lucy ends up pulling down on a cord that sends a sheet of broken glass from a broken chapel window down on King, decapitating him. The legend he was obsessed with turns out to be true, as his living head beckons Lucy not to leave him as she walks away with her Daddy. To his relief, Lucy takes King's head and puts it in her backpack, promising to say "Not a word to Daddy". So King can protect her from Daddy forever.
Album Personnel:
* King Diamond - All Vocals, Keyboards
* Andy LaRocque - Guitars
* Herb Simonsen - Guitars
* Chris Estes - Bass
* Darrin Anthony - Drums
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The Graveyard
King Diamond Lyrics
Black Hill Sanitarium I have been in here for way too long And as…
Daddy Oh Daddy...I'm so alone, Oh Daddy...come home Oh Daddy...I'v…
Digging Graves Lucy, you stay here...the tomb is warm Why don't you play…
Heads on the Wall I'm in a cold and lonely tomb Surrounded by darkness in…
I Am Back in the tomb, Lucy is sitting on the floor I…
I'm Not a Stranger I've been watching Lucy all week I've been watching her at…
Lucy Forever I leave it up me me girl, You tell me…
Meet Me at Midnight Yesterday as I finished the last of the seven graves I…
Sleep Tight Little Baby Lucy it's time for bed now, and you need your…
The Graveyard Where am I? What am I doing here? In this God…
Trick or Treat The only light inside this tomb Is coming from so high…
Up From the Grave As I look him deep in the eyes I see only…
Waiting Just after midnight, they are bringing me my pills Just aft…
Whispers You've got to get his daughter, daughter, daughter You've g…