Master of the Hellish Yard (song)

"*I am master of the hellish yard, the destroyer of hell.*"
―Master of the Hellish Yard

**Master of the Hellish Yard** is a song in The Muzzle of Michelle album. It is the third song of the Four Endings Series, serving as the leitmotif of the Master of the Hellish Yard.

## Plot

The Master of the Hellish Yard stands before a box with a golden key to unlock it. Observing her surroundings, she realizes that she is in a hell. She plans to overthrow this hell, claiming it shouldn’t have existed and the time has come to reduce it to nothing. She continues to state how, as the sin was branched off into seven and made the space into a hell, she has now been given the mission to end it. She notes how putting in the golden key will change everything from the forest, using a certain "boy" to create "Punishment". Declaring she would finally find death, she claims that the hell called Evillious shouldn’t have existed. With the assassin turned dictator letting loose her punishment, someone curses out everyone.

## Lyrics

Before my eyes, there is a box black and rectangular in size

Now on its side a hole is seen in which you may insert a key

There goes a key, into the hole, a key that's made out of gold

What fits the hole, that golden key, incidentally it belongs now to me

Skin and bones, corpses lie broken and decay with blood-thirsty wolves prowling on in the wastes

While circling over red skies are the peculiar birds rising high, giving ear piercing cries

Ah, as I have walked through this world I realise

To have seen it all again with my now opened eyes

That the place that I have found myself

Wandering without any doubt is a hell...

Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma

Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma

I've become Master of the Hellish Yard, I've become the destroyer of hell

This place that certainly shouldn't have been created at all

Now the time's come to recall it to the nothingness that it was

Six became seven and branched through the world as slowly it turned it into their Hell

But now it is me with the means to amend such a deed by destroying everything I see

If I insert the key then it will change everything, if I do it then in that moment the story will cease

At the forest it is aimed, the 'little boy' of the end

And with 'Punishment' its name

Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma

Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma

As they say, now I have become Death, I have become the destroyer of all

This place that shouldn't have ever been given chance to exist

One day soon it shall disappear, blood-spattered hell of Evillious

An assassin, dictator, she was such a girl, but when she turned her key into the Punishment

On that day someone watched it begin and after it they said, "Now..."

"We're all sons of bitches."

Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma

Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma…

## Related Songs

### The Muzzle of Michelle

The Muzzle of Michelle shows the backstory of the Master of the Hellish Yard, showing the events that turned her from an assassin to a dictator as well as the events that led to her becoming Master of the Hellish Yard.

### Capriccio Farce

Capriccio Farce serves to show the Master of the Hellish Yard in opposition to the inhabitants of Evil's Theater regarding their plans; the song also suggests her ownership of the Golden Key.

### Seven Crimes and Punishments

The end of Evillious threatened by the Master of the Hellish Yard is alluded to in Seven Crimes and Punishments as Michelle remarks on her gunshot of destruction.

## Appearances

### Characters

* Gallerian Chirclatia (indirect mention only)
* Master of the Hellish Yard
* Unknown Onlooker (first appearance)

### Locations

* Bolganio
* Elphegort
* Hellish Yard (mentioned only)
* Millennium Tree Forest
* Periods
* Third Period

### Groups

* Behemoth (indirect mention only)
* Octo Family
* Tasan Party
* Glassred Bloodline

### Misc

* Grim the End
* Hereditary Evil Raiser Syndrome
* Humans
* Inheritors (indirect mention only)
* Irregulars (indirect mention only)
* Magic
* Magic Abilities
* Magic Tools
* Possession
* Punishment (first appearance)
* Vessels of Sin

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## Trivia

### Conceptualization and Origin

* The song's events parallel the Trinity test conducted in New Mexico, USA, the first test of an atomic bomb by the United States army.
* The Master of the Hellish Yard's statements that she had become "Death, the destroyer of worlds" likely references J. Robert Oppenheimer's famous quote from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
* Similarly, the song's unidentified quote towards the end likely references the same quote by Kenneth Bainbridge, "Now we are all sons of bitches"; it was stated to Oppenheimer immediately after the Trinity test was successful.