The story begins with an epic burst of piano, also known as Overture, in order to prepare the listener for what they are going to hear.
As the music settles, we are brought to the first lyrical introduction, Welcome To The Old West. Two men, both extremely drunk, prepare to face off in a duel in the center of town. Having made some sort of argument the night before, the two spend their entire night preparing to die, and finally, when the time comes, our protagonist is shot and killed. It's all a little hazy at first which person was actually shot, but when the dust settles and the town see's the man's body, they all leave and go about their business, and come night fall he is buried.
The man now travels down a long road, and eventually he hits A Fork In The Road. The man's problem is that he was never really anything in life. He was not overly evil, or overly good. So God and Satan decide to let the man decide. God offers him a life eternal in Heaven, but Satan entices our protagonist with the thought of getting his old life back. Satan knows that this man just wants to be alive again, and he offers that to him, to which the man accepts.
In The Bargain For A Lifetime, we learn what deal Satan is offering. He says that as long as the man returns to Earth and kills the man that killed him and his family, Satan will grant him his life back. The man signs a contract agreeing to this, without reading anything, and begins to climb back up through Hell to earth.
The weather begins to darken, and as light cracks, the man crawls out of the ground during Intermission.
In The Shadows Are Alive, the living man and his wife are having a drink to celebrate. In the shadows our protagonist watches them, plotting and planning. His wife thinks she sees our hero, but her husband assures her that she is just drunk. However, she is so nervous that she asks her husband to sleep under the window with a shotgun, and he agrees.
In An Unsettling Night (The Nightmare Begins), we see the next night. The husband is out and his lovely wife is just returning home from some errand as our protagonist hides in her closet. When she opens it, he cuts off her head and leaves it on the table for the other man to find.
In Sheriff Sheriff!, we see the town in a great unrest as the protagonist kills more and more and hangs men from trees (in a tribute to Who Will Survive And What Will Be Left Of Them?). The sheriff, however, can not help the town and the town contines to freak out.
In The Final Nail In The Coffin, our protagonist finally moves in to ge this revenge. The previous man, sitting at home in mourning, is bursted in on by our demon, who takes a large amount of nails and nails them directly into the man who shot him. He hangs the body from a statue in the center of the town. He is so happy and overjoyed to finally kill the man and get his own life back that he repeatedly beats the man with his hammer.
As he returns to Hell in Rest In Pieces, he suddenly learns that he has been had by the devil and will never ever go home, but is instead damned to Hell for his selfishness.
And we close with a Tim Burton/Danny Elfman inspired ending, There Is No Such Thing As Sympathy (Outro).
The end. Will this ever be recorded? Maybe. Possibly sometime soon if I ever get off my ass and sit down to atleast record some piano. But I am lazy. So until that day comes...
