1. |
Prelude To Ley Lines
01:33
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2. |
Parasomnia Sophia
01:38
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There is a shadow
and she watches me
from the doorway
when I can't sleep
and when I try to
scream out into the night
I am frozen with fear
I am rigid with fright
I am watching the shadow
who watches me
There are footsteps
down the hallway
I can's see their cause
there are monsters
beside me
their red eyes are blinding me
there's a whisper in my ear
"do you want me to take you away from here?"
they all know me by my name
and they won't go away
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3. |
Dog Man Of Bray Road
03:45
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I seen him moving, running
Keeping pace with speeding cars
Up on Bray Road
Up on Bray Road
I heard him barking, howling
Screaming at the harvest moon
Up on Bray Road
Up on Bray Road
The place my nightly dreams take me
Is to that winding curve
Up on Bray Road
Up on Bray Road
And all I see in my mind’s eye
Is that beast which god left behind
Those pointy ears and that wolfish tail
And the big, sharp claws that’ll leave you pale
Man Dog x4
I’d heard the stories, I’ll admit that I was not convinced
Until I saw the beast
Until I saw the beast
Coming home late one night, I thought I’d take the fastest route
Right through Bray Road
Right through Bray Road
I came around the curve
And saw it on the side with it’s back turned
It wheeled around and it chased me down
And it followed me right to the edge of town
It followed me
Now when the meetings go late
I take the long way and I don’t debate
Stay away from Bray Road x4
Man Dog x4
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You did not believe
till you came face to face with the beast
now you spend all your life
hiding under the sheets
don't be surprised
if your psychic powers
start to grow
you'll hear a static
ringing in your ear
and then you'll know
The air was suddenly colder
and your eyes were suddenly older than before
you grabbed my hand
and then we ran
we were chased by a man with wings
growing out of his head
now I'm alone
in this beat-down home
and my mind when it roams
goes back to that night
i know what i know
and I know what I saw
and I know that you still don't believe me at all
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5. |
Fire In The Sky
02:12
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I saw a ball of light
shoot across the sky
with ease
like butter on toast
I thought I saw it all
till my eye caught the ball of light
in the sky on a fall night
oh a chill went down my spine
and for a minute I lost time
and for a second everything stopped...
oh my god
how it shimmered and it soared
and all together disappeared
you know, I wonder if where or not it was even real
i feel that way about a lot of things these days
well, you came to me in a dream
you came to me and you said
"the world in all its glory
is slowly but surely dead
and you can bide your wasted time
and you can deny such a horrid decline
or you can fight
yeah you can fight
that's about all you can do"
well i woke up in my bed
my sheets tucked perfectly around me
my window was ajar
and outside, that bright shooting star
or whatever it is I saw
you know I wonder if whether or not it was even real
I feel that way about a lot of things these days
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7. |
Haunted Walls
02:43
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They say a house holds memories
but all this home holds is bone dust
squeaky floorboards will creak at night
and creep out the both of us
there's a room behind the fireplace
where I find myself awake when I sleep walk
the curse of old Cornstalk keeps this land choked
in a headlock
the woman in the wall keeps asking me to break it down
so she can finally be free once and for all
They say bones hold energy
but all this skelly's got is lost now
they say blood runs thicker than mud
but I ain't got no skin to let crawl
there's a place outside the forest
where I find myself awake when I sleepwalk
I keep having that dream where they come in through the window
so I keep it locked
the woman in the wall keeps asking me to break it down
so she can finally be free once and for all
so I tell her no
I tell her get out of my house
go haunt someone else
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8. |
Loveless In Loveland
02:37
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Loveless after all
I saw you through the fog
and then you hopped away
little miami river babe
countenance like leather face
it all happened last night
but you been hopping hoops in my mind all day
is it the stress of my occupation
or perhaps the remoteness of our confrontation
I saw you through the fog, through the fog
a giant human frog
you never even asked my name
you'd better look both ways
before you cross my path again
little frog man creature friend
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9. |
Wave of '86
00:44
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10. |
Chestnut Ridge
02:55
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Meet me up on Chestnut Ridge
where the curve of space-time starts to twist
where things nightmares come to mix and mingle with the local residents
let's go up to Chestnut Ridge
I heard footfalls loud as boulders
breaking tree branches and loud, distant grunting
was I become hunted by that which I was hunting
when suddenly
under the eaves
of that chestnut tree
I saw its red eyes smoldering
meet me up on Chestnut Ridge
play hide and seek with sasquatch kids
we'll still believe it's '86
see the things that our parents did
let's go up to Chestnut Ridge
well I been fishinh
and I been hunting
but I ain't never seen anything like the night that I saw Something
by the watering hole
swear it was a ghoul
I'll never forget the way
it stuck its head in my window
as I peeled away
meet me up on Chestnut Ridge
where reason and logic turn to shit
where the things you read in books come alive and want to get a kiss
let's go up to Chestnut Ridge
Meet me up on Chestnut Ridge
where the curve of space-time starts to twist
where things nightmares come to mix and mingle with the local residents
let's go up to Chestnut Ridge
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