Lyric discussion by IHaveReadTheBooklet 

With gkaram and amestheamazings corrections:

he tried to escape once in a balloon he tried to escape once in a balloon on the foggiest day he decided not to stay the ground below held his wife not long ago and through the fog the ground it disappeared

he felt he had made it and starts to come down a crowd of people that followed were cheering loud and then something went wrong and he couldn't get back in the air and when he landed just inside the gates the monocle men carried him away

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