the ballad of aurora matthews

[Bee]
Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!
Down on your knees before the Queen
Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!
Down on your knees before the Queen

[Bee]
Aurora Matthews was a popular bitch. (Mm-hmm.)
Hot bod, hot babe, cheer captain, plus she was rich. (Oh, yeah.)
That girl had everything till hiccup and hitch:
Kate Delaney lost a leg in a wreck. (Am—pu—ta—ted!)

[Bee]
The nominations for Prom royalty came (Uh-huh.)
Our Rory's senior year, and Queen was her claim— (Uh, duh.)
Till gossip stirred the student body would name
Kate Delaney, Queen of the Prom.
(Pi—ty—vote!)

[Bee/Arthur]
"Aurora," her father said, "Life is a Prom
I know you won't disappoint me and mom...?"

[Bee and Char]
You taste the silver, Aurora! You taste the crown
You thirst for blood from the roses in hand
Whoa, you spoil for sash and scepter, music to dance
As they crown you Queen of High School Land

[Char]
(Check Aurora, choose Aurora, vote for Aurora Matthews.)

[Bee and Char]
(Check Aurora, choose Aurora, vote for Aurora Matthews.)

[Bee]
So obsessed, our Rory near lost her mind
To life un-Prom-related, Aurora was blind;
She shoved her squad, her clique, her boyfriend behind—
Still Kate had a hold on the lead. (Poor, poor, Katie...)

[Bee]
Soon Aurora's sanity was hung by a thread
Her B.F.F.'s proclaimed her socially dead
'Til then, at last, her partner texted and said:

[Bee/Clover]
"I'm taking Kate to the senior Prom."

[Char]
(Love, love, Kate...)

"Aurora," her mother said, "Why be so calm?
There's just no future for a Princess at Prom..."

[Bee and Char]
You taste the silver, Aurora! You taste the crown
You thirst for blood from the roses in hand
Whoa, you spoil for sash and scepter, music to dance
As they crown you Queen of High School Land

Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!
Down on your knees before the Queen!
Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!
Down on your knees before the Queen!

[Bridge]
Some girls are rational but Aurora was not

She stared in mirrors thinking one single thought:

There's seven reasons this crown's not good as got—

And so the night of Prom, mercy! Thus went her plot:    

[Char]
Kate, Astrid, Reese, Romi, Mae, Penelope, Quinn

[Bee]
(Thus went her plot!)

[Bee]
"P" is for Penelope drinking poisoned punch
"R" is for Romi dashed on a rock-- crunch!
"O" is what Astrid said when Aurora bludgeoned her brains
And "M" is Mae's marinated remains
But! But!
"Q" is for Quinn, quiet, drowned in the pool
And "U" is for Reese's pieces spread round the school
But "E's" are for the easy way in five minutes tops
A one-legg'd girl can bring an "N" for end by calling the cops.

[Char]
What a bitch.

[Bee and Char]
You got your silver Aurora, you got your crown
You got their blood on your roses in hand
Whoa, you donned the sash and scepter, doing a dance
As you crowned you Queen of High School Land!
Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!

Down on your knees before the Queen

Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!

Down on your knees before—

They wrapped your wrists in silver, they took your crown

As they washed your bloody fingers and hands

Into a tight straitjacket, small padded cell

Screaming, "I'm the Queen of High School Land!"

Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!

Down on your knees before the Queen

[Char]

(Woah...)

(The ballad of Aurora Matthews.)   

[Bee]
God save the Queen...