JERSEY DEVIL

Try to run and hide

Flying through the pine

With eyes open wide

Is your design

(Oh, father, deliver me from thee)

Evil lies within, gouge it out

A sacrifice of the devout

Crawling on your skin, burrowing down

Lungs and ribs will form a house

Extremities root in the mud

Lilies flourish, bathed in blood

They laugh and weep as stems are cut

And tossed on caskets of the shunned

Dead man running

To the hollowed grave

He dug himself

King, so well renowned

Fire and blades came down,

Spilled and soaked the ground

To feed the crowd

Try to run and hide

Flying through the pine

With eyes open wide

Is your design

Damnation

Looming over a prophet

Looks it dead in the face

Revenge has come to take you back and you can

Try to run and hide

Flying through the pine

With eyes open wide

Is your design

Rained down

Stained the pages

You swore

Palm to your heart

Called up to the lord

Nailed to the wood

Paraded through town

Vomiting hymns out your rotten mouth

While the possessed

Dance to the sound

Of your body turning inside out

Dead man running

To the hollowed grave

He dug himself

Gather round

And light your matches

When she rings the church bell

King, so well renowned

Fire and blades came down,

Spilled and soaked the ground

To feed the crowd

Try to run and hide

Flying through the pine

With eyes open wide

Is your design

Damnation

Looming over a prophet

Looks it dead in the face

Revenge has come to take you back and you can

Try to run and hide

Flying through the pine

With eyes open wide

Is your design

Step off your pedestal from which you bend the truth

And banish whoever defies what you spew

Follow the whispers that leak from the thickets

If you find yourself straying, just

Whistle and I'll come to you

He lures you in

(She lures you in)

To the deep dark woods

(Into the deep)

Just whistle and I'll come to you

The end is drawing closer

He kneels and he prays

Every minutes torture

He begs and he cries

Allow us to warn you

He's a very bad man