Evil Seeds

Empty pockets, aching guts
Are you one of us?
From the bottom reaching up
Are you one of us?
The engineer has lost control
Oh, God no
The engineer has lost control
Oh, God no
Death train rolling down the tracks
Doomed, derailed never coming back
 
Weary brain and busted jaw
Are you one of us?
Caring for nothing it all
Are you one of us?
The engineer has lost control
Oh, God no
The engineer has lost control
Oh, God no
Death train rolling down the tracks
Doomed, derailed never coming back
 
Crawling down a gravel road
Are you one of us?
Sunken cheeks and shattered bones
Are you one of us?
The engineer has lost control
The engineer has lost control
Death train rolling down the tracks
Doomed, derailed never coming back
 
Filthy clothes hang like a shroud
Are you one of us?
Mama, Papa ain’t you proud?
Are you one of us?
The engineer has lost control
Oh, God no
The engineer has lost control
Oh, God no
Death train rolling down the tracks
Doomed, derailed never coming back

There’s something evil in you
And it is growing stronger
A hungry shadow creeping
You cannot fight much longer
 
Get that evil out of you
We gotta get that evil out
Get that evil out of you
We gotta get that evil out
 
You have been causing mischief 
Among the civilized
You rascal when they catch you
There’ll be no time for lies

Get that evil out of you
We gotta get that evil out
Get that evil out of you
We gotta get that evil out
 
Old sawbones he can’t fix it
The preacher’s powerless
I’ve seen some deeds unholy honey
But none as bad as this
 
Get that evil out of you
We gotta get that evil out
Get that evil out of you
We gotta get that evil out
 
Go walk through burning coals now
Kick rattlesnakes around
Unnatural and violent
Demonic force unbound
 
Get that evil out of you
We gotta get that evil out
Get that evil out of you
We gotta get that evil out

I seen you standing
In a river made of gold
The moon was shining in your eyes
The scent of maple
In the early morning fog
You wore a halo made of flies
 
Where will I go when everyone is gone?
Guess I’ll just go away
Why am I haunted by every lonesome song?
I hear ’em night and day
 
You held a pistol
It was silver, it was jeweled
There was a bullet in your brain
Within the wound there was no blood
There was no gore
I felt a strange nostalgic pain
 
Where will I go when everyone is gone?
Guess I’ll just go away
Why am I haunted by every lonesome song?
I hear ’em night and day
 
It’s hard to tell now
What is real and what is fake
Was Jonah swallowed by a whale?
Sometimes I wonder
If there ever was a world
Before the serpent ate its tail
 
Where will I go when everyone is gone?
Guess I’ll just go away
Why am I haunted by every lonesome song?
I hear ’em night and day

So here we are now
In a place where time is gone
Where every failure is forgot
A place where maybe
There exists something true
Before it’s buried ’neath the rot
 
Where will I go when everyone is gone?
Guess I’ll just go away
Why am I haunted by every lonesome song?
I hear ’em night and day
Where will I go?

Everything’s too noisy
Everything’s too fast
Come on doll let’s travel
Back to the past
Let’s go live in black and white
I don’t mean forever, just tonight
 
You put on that ball gown
I’ll put on some shoes
When we’re living fancy
Oh, we cannot lose
Let’s go live in black and white
I don’t mean forever, just tonight
 
Now pretend it’s Sunday
And it’s summertime
Put them bloody lips dear
Right on top of mine
Let’s go live in black and white
I don’t mean forever, just tonight
 
There’ll be total silence
We won’t speak in words
It will be so peaceful
Eerie and absurd
Let’s go live in black and white
I don’t mean forever, just tonight

Stuck beneath an avalanche
The air is running out
Gnawing on my blackened tongue
My struggle shall soon be done
Thinking of my brown eyed Lil
Sitting by the fire
Combing through her curly black hair
Without a single care
Avalanche, avalanche
You killed me
 
Wish I had a fountain pen
To write my will
Should’ve wrote it long ago
But when death comes, you never know
Useful things I should’ve done
Instead of laying around
So much squandered, so much lost
I finally learned the terrible cost
Avalanche, avalanche
You killed me
 
Oh my poor and ugly wife
You bore so much
Never one kind word from me
Nor no gentle touch
Always ornery, always sour
Spitting on the bible
Picking fights with holy men
I won ’em all, but to what end?
Avalanche, avalanche
You killed me

No matter how mighty
The fortress you build
The enemy will always
Find a way inside
Don’t make the mistake
Of thinking you’re safe
All shall be lost in the merciless tide
Heaven’s too far, what’s it worth
When you’re living in Hell on the planet Earth?
 
Witness the wicked
They prosper and grow
The wealth of the world
For a chosen few
The masses are beaten
And treated like dogs
They throw us their bones
Boys, and tell us to chew
Heaven’s too far, what’s it worth
When you’re living in Hell on the planet Earth?
 
Your tears they are falling
Those ghosts how they whine
Down in the gutter
The days creep by
Fires burn black
The green countryside
In the still of your prison
With spit in your eye
Heaven’s too far, what’s it worth
When you’re living in Hell on the planet Earth?
 
The sheriff is waiting
Down at the bar
With a face like a snake
And a heart like a stone
Your brass knuckles knocking
Against your bruised palm
You look at the clock
Wipe your mouth as it foams
Heaven’s too far, what’s it worth
When you’re living in Hell on the planet Earth?

Going into town to raise a ruckus
Got fifty dollars to my worthless name
Don’t care if the sun come up tomorrow
Tonight I gotta try to ease the pain
I’ll drink, drink, and wake up in the gutter
 
Find a table in the darkest corner
There I’ll sit and whistle lonesome tunes
I’m looking for a face with lines of worry
Who’s sick of wasting time on brainless goons
I’ll drink, drink, and wake up in the gutter
 
Honey, it feels good to be so hollow
Nothing left inside but twelve cheap beers
Put a nickel in that dusty jukebox
And waltz alone into the pit of tears
Drink, drink, and wake up in the gutter
 
How come you don’t never say you hate me?
I see that venom dripping from your fangs
If you wanna kill me dear, just kill me
You could be the belle of a woman’s chain gang
Drink, drink, and wake up in the gutter

See our home, in ruins decayed
I’m ashamed
Your body left, your spirit stayed
I’m ashamed
 
I’m so ashamed
Used up, maimed
I ain’t fit to speak your name
You ain’t fit to do the same
 
Thistle growing on the altar
I’m ashamed
Holy faith began to falter
I’m ashamed
 
I’m so ashamed
Used up, maimed
I ain’t fit to speak your name
You ain’t fit to do the same
And I’m just too tired to care

Oh goat blood dried on wooden floor
I’m ashamed
Hey I clean it up, there’s always more
I’m ashamed

I’m so ashamed
Used up, maimed
I ain’t fit to speak your name
You ain’t fit to do the same
 
Cold of night will never rise
I’m ashamed
The heat escapes as flesh it fries
I’m ashamed
 
I’m so ashamed
Used up, maimed
I ain’t fit to speak your name
You ain’t fit to do the same
And I’m just too tired to care

Into her heart the knife she stuck
She said, “Now you’re through you lazy slut
You stole my man and made him lose his head
So like a rabid dog, well I shot him dead
I hung him from a chain link fence
And now you fiend, well you are next
God won’t want your corrupted soul
Adulterer, straight down to hell you’ll go
 
Then I’ll wait for a night sick with fog
And cut you down to feed to Henderson’s hog
Then silently, without a single sound
I’ll bury what’s left deep in unhallowed ground
After you’ve lain there for about a year
I’ll dig you up just like you always feared
Oh I’ll pulverize your last remains
And wash ’em clean in the toxic rain
 
Then I’ll head on down to Mexico
Where of my deeds, no one shall know
I’ll drink the wine, but I will not forget
Each gory deed, I’ll want to savor it
I’ll sleep in peace with heart content
With mind at ease and back unbent
My hurts will heal, yours shall not
No you won’t even have a corpse to rot
 
My husband was a useless man
Now you can’t have him, nobody can
It’s a lesson you’ll have to learn with your life
Don’t you never mess with a neglected wife  
So now I’m free to find someone new
My feelings for that scum they had long been through
Oh love is always evil, death is never kind
Those are simple truths that you must keep in mind
Yes love is always evil, death is never kind
Those are simple truths that you must keep in mind.”

Sick, sick, sick, sick
Sick of waking up each day
Sick of every word you say
Sick of everything I know
Sick of praying to the Lord
Sick of getting no reward
Sick of everything I know
Sick, I’m sick, I’m sick of breathing
Sick, I’m sick, I’m sick of breathing
 
Sick, sick, sick, sick
Sick of worry, sick of woe
Sick of every place I go
Sick of everything I know
Sick of breaking bones in two
Sick of me and sick of you
Sick of everything I know
Sick, I’m sick, I’m sick of breathing
Sick, I’m sick, I’m sick of breathing
 
Sick, sick, sick, sick
Sick of losing all my bets
Sick of tears and old regrets
Sick of everything I know
Sick of being so let down
Sick of this whole rotten town
Sick of everything I know
Sick, I’m sick, I’m sick of breathing
Sick, I’m sick, I’m sick of breathing
 
Sick, sick, sick, sick
Sick of always feeling ill
Sick of this constant urge to kill
Sick of everything I know
Sick of waiting for a break
Sick of all the same mistakes
Sick of everything I know
Sick, I’m sick, I’m sick of breathing
Sick, I’m sick, I’m sick of breathing

Now we wait
At the end of the world
It’s no longer just a rumor
The battle has been lost
Darkness has prevailed
I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner
The soil’s cursed
The air is poisoned
With evil seeds
 
There’s no changing course
And no happy end
It’s time to pay the viper
The ark was not built
Extinction is at hand
We followed a demon piper
The soil’s cursed
The air is poisoned
With evil seeds
 
It’s best to stay away
From all mortal men
And live with fallen angels
Though they don’t exist
They’ll stay by your bed
Until the final pain goes
The soil’s cursed
The air is poisoned
With evil seeds