We'd like to welcome you to your home

Welcome to your home

Welcome to your home please step inside

Time to meet the guests of this place

I was a play-write screen and stage

I was a star of style and grace

We were the ones who packed 'em into the place

I am the composer of this symphonatic psychopatic show

Right this way, come meet the band

Players of my requiem, here come the dancers

The jugglers and the clowns are at the door

Welcome to our celebration

Sing rejoice in desolation

Join us in our grand creation

Drink sweet wine, sublime salvation

This night the moon and stars don't shine

The shadows crawl from your mind

All the friends you knew before, no longer, anymore

The smell of flowers all around

The taste of ash and sacred ground stains your tongue

But hush, hush

You had your money, your women, your fame

You stuck it all into your veins

Till you slipped from your mortal remains

Now, sing for me, sing to me

Now you're the star of the show once again

You're meat to the jackals my friend

Just meat to the jackals, meat to the jackals

You're fit for your shackles, Aye?

"Shhh! Listen

The master of the house is coming through the door"

So we meet at last my friend, I've waited for this day

To welcome you in person to this housethat you must stay

We prepared a long time and we've gone to great expense

To orchestrate, negotiate your form of recompense

Now come on!

I see the morning sun is rising in the wide blue heavens

The dew of morning sparkles on the grassy way

Through the mist I see that all my friends are gathered

They're standing, staring at a grave

And he can hear them...

Farewell my dear one, farewell my dear one

Goodbye my love

I hope that you don't find this in bad taste

Counting the house and the wide estate

Let the accountants calculate

The money in the bank account he's saved

Think of all the royalties that this is sure to generate

Take the clothes to West L.A

Sell them all to that "Rock Cafe"

Sell the ears, the old guitars, the family scars

And throw the rest away

The guest surround him

Leading him from the curtain back to the ballroom...

Welcome to our celebration

Sing rejoice in desolation

(Now that you've finally come home)

Join us in our grand creation

Drink sweet wine, sublime salvation