The Handsome Family - Gentlemen

Gentlemen, I tell you now
I swear the truth
I saw the table rise, the teacup flew

From tempered glass I built the apparatus
To alight in the presence of phantasmus
Filaments within detect a change
In aero-pressure, barometric waves

Gentlemen, in the name of science!
Gentlemen, I now can prove
The unseen world is close, it pushes through

Gentlemen, the lights blew out!
Gentlemen, the curtains moved!
A world of light resides just past our view

Within the crooks of vacuum tubes
A caged spirit lit aglow the room
Burst forth from the shattered tube
It thinned my blood, burnt me, ravaged cruel

Gentlemen, the lights do flicker!
Gentlemen, the air it cools!
Who's with me here, listening in this room?

Gentlemen, the world grows dark!
Gentlemen, the curtains moved!
Who's with me here, whispering in this room?