Grim Weepers

Are you sitting alone tonight?
Did you make it back home all right?
If I knock on your door at one
Will you forget the things I’ve done?
Slowly back my fingers bend
I’m just waiting for the end

Can’t you see that I’m hurtin’ bad?
Don’t my tears make you awful sad?
Oh I promise to treat you nice
Let me touch you just once or twice
Slowly back my fingers bend
I’m just waiting for the end

The moon has turned red
The stars have all fled
So long, so long, so long

See the scars on my mangled fist
On every knuckle your Judas kiss
Something’s wrong I don’t feel too good
Do you think that I ever could?
Slowly back my fingers bend
I’m just waiting for the end

Once we met by the garden wall
You were happy you stood so tall
I was coughin’ up poisoned words
I was stranglin’ pretty birds
Slowly back my fingers bend
I’m just waiting for the end

The moon has turned red
The stars have all fled
So long, so long, so long

Now I’m choppin’ the roots from trees
When they scream it don’t bother me
And your venom it chills me so
There’s so much you must never know
Slowly back my fingers bend
I’m just waiting for the end

The moon has turned red
The stars have all fled
So long, so long, so long

Moonlight, moonlight
I’m begging you to swallow me
I’m giving up the fight tonight

There is laughter in the raindrops
There is weeping in the wind
I am watching from your closet
As you fall in love with him

Things are never as you plan them
Life is never what you pray
It is always so disappointing
When you wake up everyday

Moonlight, moonlight
I’m begging you to swallow me
I’m giving up the fight tonight

I picked you poison ivy
Made a big antique bouquet
You said you’d meet me at the dancehall
So I waited there all day

Now the stars up there in heaven
Look as lonely as can be
But I swear that they’re not half as
Lost and lonesome as me

Moonlight, moonlight
I’m begging you to swallow me
I’m giving up the fight tonight

Now I sit here with my hammer
And a battered, bloody eye
Put the claw end to my forehead
It’s so hard to say goodbye

Moonlight, moonlight
I’m begging you to swallow me
I’m giving up the fight tonight

December fifteenth, twenty-fourteen
Down in the cellar so cold and unclean
Rolling old dice, thinking ‘bout death
An ache in my heart and a chill on my breath

It’s so dark here I cannot see
It’s so dark here I cannot see

Through the void past the stars
Don’t hide from me darlin’
I know where you are
Ancient ruins blackened teeth
The warmth of your spirit is just beyond reach

It’s so dark here I cannot see
It’s so dark here I cannot see

I dreamed I was alive for an hour
I saw the summer sky, now it’s gone

Silver fog, golden moon
A daggar of bone and the skin of a loon
Bowl of blood, sweet red wine
The treasure you seek well you never shall find

It’s so dark here I cannot see
It’s so dark here I cannot see

I dreamed I was alive for an hour
I saw the summer sky, now it’s gone

I wish I didn’t break everything
I wish I was younger
I wish there were ghosts in my house
And lightning and thunder

And I wish you weren’t sick anymore
Oh I wish we could live forever

I wish it would snow through the night
I wish I was frozen
I wish my old crystal ball
It hadn’t been stolen

And I wish you weren’t sick anymore
Oh I wish we could live forever

I wish I was stranded on Mars
I wish you were with me
I wish the dead folks would sing
I wish they were happy

And I wish you weren’t sick anymore
Oh I wish we could live forever

Bluebird vicious bluebird
All night long you listen to me cry
Bluebird Mister bluebird
Goblin sulfur wings engulf the sky

This is why they always try to spit on me
This is why they always run away from me
But they never get far

Bluebird vicious bluebird
Endless silent hours creeping by
Bluebird Mister bluebird
The bellows of my lungs now rattle dry

This is why they always try to spit on me
This is why they always run away from me
But they never get far

Bluebird Mister bluebird
All night long you listen to me cry

Did you see the fire last night?
I swear the heavens were aflame
I closed my eyes and stepped outside
And softly called your name

Listen to the crocus sway
That low and distant buzz
The past seems so impossible
And maybe dear it was

Do you believe that I have changed?
Can you believe?

Yes I know you’re always there
To watch my every step
I guess the news my heart is true
Just hasn’t reached you yet

With springtime came the heavy rains
To cleanse this stinking earth
A succubus fell on my lap
My word it lost its worth

Do you believe that I have changed?
Can you believe?

Everyone is capable
Of deeds unclean and dark
Truth and light were lost to me
I played the villain’s part

I dug a hole and climbed inside
My mind was sick with doubt
But now I want to live again
Beware I’m crawling out

Do you believe that I have changed?
Can you believe?
For I cannot

I went out driving just the other night
Far away from all the city lights
The music in the car was turned down low
I was looking for a place I used to know

Called Weary Road, Weary Road
We used to meet there in the days of old
Weary Road

It was late I almost fell asleep
But to you this one promise I would keep
To meet you ‘neath the tree with leaves of red
When next the blue moon did raise it’s head

On Weary Road, Weary Road
We used to meet there in the days of old
Weary Road

I brought my father’s pistol and some rope
Within my heart there nested a strange hope
I wondered how you’d look and who you’d be
And if you’d still have time for one like me

On Weary Road, Weary Road
We used to meet there in the days of old
Weary Road

The heartache you brought me
Is coming in handy
For making me shake all night
And if I am nervous
I crawl in the furnace
And sleep until the daylight

And it’s okay to want to die
If everything is a big lie
Oh it’s okay to want to die
‘Cause everything is a big lie

When I was walking
Alone in my hallway
Some creatures reached out from the dark
So I grabbed my lighter
To set them on fire
But could not create a single spark

And it’s okay to want to die
If everything is a big lie
Oh it’s okay to want to die
‘Cause everything is a big lie

Darlin’ oh darlin’
Where have you fallen?
You slid right off the serving tray
So I called my mother
Then she called another
And now they’re hauling me away

And it’s okay to want to die
If everything is a big lie
Oh it’s okay to want to die
‘Cause everything is a big lie

Away they’re hauling me away
Away they’re hauling me away

‘Cause everything is a big lie
Everything is a big lie
Everything is a big lie
A big big big big lie

This sure is a nice house you have
Can I hang on the wall?
Everyone loves you here
But I love you more

Please don’t call the hospital
I don’t want to go back
They treat me bad
They treat me bad

Do you know my name or face?
I lived up the street
You’re the kind of lady that
I always longed to meet

Please don’t call the hospital
I don’t want to go back
They treat me bad
They treat me bad

But I’m harmless
Surely you can see
I’m harmless
Gentle as can be
I’m harmless
So let me in

I hear the sirens wailing now
And I am afraid
At least I still have Lucifer
And this my magic spade

Please don’t call the hospital
I don’t want to go back
They treat me bad
They treat me bad

But I’m harmless
Surely you can see
I’m harmless
Gentle as can be
I’m harmless
So let me in

Once I was wicked and filled up with rage
But now I’m just tired and gray
It all was a joke and I laughed in your face
It’s not so funny today
It’s not so funny today

Stand by the window and cover your eyes
I don’t want you seeing me age
Every story it must end it tears
When you reach the final page
We have reached the final page

Is everything as meaningless as it seems?
I hope not but I fear it is
Oh honey I fear it is

Never before had I missed someone close
As much as I missed you that night
My heart it was cold and dead in my chest
You cursed it and brought it to life
You brought the monster to life

The secrets I’ve learned in this solitude
I’ll take with me to the grave
I hope that you know I loved you the best
Though I treated you just like a slave
Though you were just a slave

Is everything as meaningless as it seems?
I hope not but I fear it is
Oh honey I fear it is

It’s hard to believe but long, long ago
I was not bitter or blue
I walked in the light, I slept through the night
It’s strange but I swear it is true
It’s strange but it is true

Look I am holding the head of a snake
And walking alone down the road
This is a moment I’ll never forget
It’ll cheer me when I’m useless and old
It’ll cheer me when I am old

Is everything as meaningless as it seems?
I hope not but I fear it is
Oh honey I know it is

The time has come to cut them all off
And shut myself in, shut in
I could not be what they’d have me be
But now I am free, shut in

Maybe I’ll finally find peace now
Maybe I’ll finally find peace

Books on the floor, dust on the shelf
I’m all by myself, shut in
It’s true I’ll admit I don’t like anyone
And it’s always more fun shut in

Maybe I’ll finally find peace now
Maybe I’ll finally find peace

The sounds from outside of laughter and joy
They prove to annoy, shut in
Whenever I speak there’s nothing to say
And who cares anyway, shut in

Maybe I’ll finally find peace now
Maybe I’ll finally find peace

Leave me alone
Why don’t you leave me alone?
Come on just leave me alone
Can’t you see that I’m ill?
So ill