It was many a bloody year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know,
By the name of Annabel Zombie;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to feed and be fed by me.
She was a zombie and I was a zombie,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love,
I and my Annabel Zombie,
With a love that the pump-action shotguns of humans
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A blast blew out of a gun by night, killing my Annabel Zombie;
So that her mortal killers came
And bore her away from me, to shut her up in a testing lab
In this kingdom by the sea.
For the food never screams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Zombie;
And the bodies still rise but I see the blank eyes
Of my darling, my darling, my life and bride,
In her testing lab there by the sea,
In her lab by the side of the sea.