Escape From... (Intro)

(album: Alkatraz - 2020)

Exactly 100 years ago, there existed an elusive island, appearing and disappearing like a mirage revealed only by a seductive mist...
Upon this island, which was said to materialize on the reverse side of a real world dastardly prison, was a Purgatory more akin to a hellscape for those whose sins were yet to be judged
Beyond death
From here, a voice pierces through that sultry mist to reach the ears of a willing listener...
I wonder... Can you hear it?

This ain't the kinda story to start with "once upon a time"
Painted, designed and fortified this narrative of the devilish kind
SWITCH on the poetic tricks
"GET RICH, and get it quick"
Nice pitch, but reality's rhetoric promises addicts no easy fix...
Let's take a journey down the River Styx, amigo, how 'bout it?
Somewhat concerning ferry excursion, cause the path is clouded
Mystifying misty island in the distance designed as a twisted asylum for the wild and the violent
煉獄って言う場所か？[Rengoku tte iu basho ka?]
For the ones 'bout to pass
Some people call it "purgatory" but the others call it "ALKATRAZ"
A place in-between the AfterStories unseen
They say disgraced by the screams and laughter, torturous dreams, disaster
地獄と上界の間ある刑務所 [Jigoku to jōkai no ma aru keimusho]
The joke's that prison life's a wild, sadistic gameshow!
Might die again of boredom in these walls so confined
But will I ever make it out?
Not 'til the Warden decides

Oh, I'm so criminal
Rhymes so cynical
Why so critical? Stop getting political
It might not shock my friends, but I ain't fixable
I'm only here because YOU told me to "live a little."
Oh, I'm so criminal
Rhymes so cynical
Why so critical? Stop getting political
It might not shock my friends, but I ain't fixable
I'm only here because YOU told me to "live a little."

Well isn't it your lucky day
You get the grand tour
All right then...
Follow me