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Penny
03:13
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Slow whistling train in the distance
It’s the loneliest sound
Train blowing it in on the night wind
From out of town
Someday I’ll catch that train
It’ll take me off someplace
Someplace I can forget you
The trains would moan when you held me close
I can’t hear em without thinking of you
Where’d you go? Oh where? I don’t know
Do you ride the rails next to somebody new?
Someday I’ll catch that train
It’ll take me off someplace
Someplace I can forget you
Been saving up my Abe Lincolns
Only if they’re heads up
Been laying them down on the train tracks
Wish me luck
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2. |
Cactus Gal
02:14
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You’re my little cactus gal
I wanna wrap my arms around
You’re my little desert rose
Who grows where no rainwater flows
That’s enough
That’s enough for you
That’s enough
That’s enough for me too
You’re my little porcupine
Some day soon I’ll make you mine
But I’m a tumbleweed
Rolling on by
Down a dusty street
In the sweet moonlight
But that’s enough
That’s enough for me
That’s enough
That’s enough for anybody
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3. |
Rattlesnake Boy
03:36
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Rattlesnake boy
Wanna see you shakin' that thing
Got a knife in my boot if you talk to me rude tonight
Come to my room & I betcha we'll do all right
Boa constrictor
Hold me close so tight
Hissy fit
Poisonous
Sharp fangs
That could cut you in two
Cut you in two
Shedding my skin
Tipping the scales
Danger I’m in
Got me shaking my tail
Right away
I got to hide away
From you
Cobra boy
Won’t you dance to the sound of my flute
Hissy fit
Poisonous
Sharp fangs
That could cut you in two
Cut you in two
Curl up with me
Hope you’re watching where you step
Curl up with me
Sink your fangs into my chest
Rattlesnake boy
Wanna see you shakin' that thing
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4. |
Vampire
03:47
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Vampire
With the sharp teeth
Won’t you bite me
Bleed me dry
Drink deep
Until I’m empty
Til I’m barely even alive
Drink my blood
Never seem to get enough
Makes me think you’re gonna suck
Til I die
Wish you would
Drink somebody else’s blood
Maybe then I finally could
Come back to life
Maybe tonight
Maybe tonight
I’ll make a wooden stake
The sun will shine
As the new day will break
Meanwhile
White smiles
Turn red
At my neck
Swallow
Until I’m hollow
Til I’m almost
Dead
Drink my blood
Never seem to get enough
Makes me think you’re gonna suck
Til I die
Wish you would
Drink somebody else’s blood
Maybe then I finally could
Come back to life
Maybe tonight
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5. |
Deep Dark Woods
03:58
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In the deep dark woods I ride
Over babbling brooks & mountainsides
Whistling wind
Through my yellow skeleton
Lord I been dead a while
Took a ride one evening late
And I somehow lost my way
Tired and cold
I lay down beside my foal
Til grass had grown
O’er our bones
Heaven I just wanna ride
Through the snow
Let me go
If the reaper with his tattered robe
Comes to claim my wayward soul
Watch me dash
Fast as this old nag can go
He’ll never catch us I know
Heaven I just wanna ride
Through the trees
Set me free
Free to roam
Let me go
Forest deep
In thee I sleep
Body decomposed
Spirit free
To wind and weave
Til Jesus calls me home
In the deep dark woods I ride
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6. |
Emerald Eyes
04:07
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The sun set tangerine
A dark bruise fading to cadbury cream
Deep in the witch’s wood
Her hut opened up
And there she stood
And I can’t fight those emerald eyes
Her cauldron bubbled smoke
It hissed
As from the mist
A snake arose
The serpent gently swayed
And I felt myself drift away
And I can’t fight those emerald eyes
I can’t fight those emerald eyes
I watched it dance
So mesmerized
It sank its fangs
Inside my mind
Now I live in the witch’s wood
Like all good familiars should
Picking toadstools and blinding newts
Riding brooms across October moons
If one day her spell wears off
I don’t think I’ll wander far
Guess I grew a taste for witch’s brew
Doing all the shit that witches do
I can’t hide my emerald eyes
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7. |
Pentagram
05:31
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Tonight she’s finally slipping out of that dress
Tommy’s been waiting his entire life for this
Stealing glances ‘cross the farm
Now she’s in his arms in the hay
And she says
Tommy, Tommy dear
There’s no need to fear
Come inside with me
I just want to have some fun
Won’t you come
Take a ride with me?
Tommy wakes to find his arms tied behind his back
Who’d expect the boss’s daughter'd like kinky sex?
Heart a-pounding in his chest
He wonders what’s next
Thinking man how goddamn lucky can a farmhand get?
Head abuzz with excitement
Sweetly she reminds him
Tommy, Tommy dear
There’s no need to fear
Come inside with me
I just want to have some fun
Won’t you come
Take a ride with me?
A rusty dagger flashed
And Tommy’s blood did make a splash
Across her naked skin
The hay a crimson shade
A bloody pentagram she made
And chanted this with conviction
Come on in, my little Satan
Come on in, come on in
So the dark lord takes them
Singing this exultation
It's awful hot down here
But there’s no need to fear
Come inside with me
I just want to have some fun
Won’t you come
Take a ride with me?
Come take a ride with me
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Joel Murray Nashville, Tennessee
Husband & wife indie folk-pop duo. Making music our dog hates since 2012.
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