Fatum Horrificum: 1884 - Ayreon, Tom Baker

The year is 1884

These are dark, troubled times

Fraught with greed, envy, and prejudice

It’s two world’s divided:

Rich and poor, black and white

Master and servant, the living and, (uoh) well, the not quite dead

Oh yes, that’s right: the spirit world

Plays a large part in this story that you are about to hear

Allow me to present

Abby and Daniel

A happy couple obviously

Head-over-heels and completely smitten with each other (huh)

Aren’t they adorable?

They could not know, of course

That their love was doomed, even as it started

And that fate was about to deal them

The cruelest hand

Imaginable

I feel I should warn you

This tale is not for the faint of heart

Things go dreadfully wrong for our young lovers

The terrible horrific sequence of events that’s about to unfold here

Will surely be too much for the tender-hearted

There — ha!

my duty to you is fulfilled

And you may now proceed

But at your own risk