THE LONG ROAD ALBUM

TWO TIMER

I should’ve listened, baby, you know it wasn’t hard to see…

All the evil things I’ve been doin’, well, you’re bringing them back to me.

I ain’t tryin’ to start no war, baby, and there ain’t no cause to bleed

For the Two Timer…Two Timer… Two Timer

Two Timer,  Two Timer get away from me, now!

I wish you’d change your ways, little baby, and you say you’re sorry, too.

I ain’t deaf, little girl, and I can hear what they sayin’ ‘bout you

That you’re two timin’…. Two Timer…. Two Timer

Two Timer, Two Timer get away from me, now!

Hidden eyes, practiced lines

It’s a good disguise for bad advice, oh!

I don’t ask where you’re going at night and I don’t break into your telephone

‘Cause I’m as bad as you, little baby, you don’t see me throw no stones…

At the Two Timer. Two Timer…. Two Timer

Two Timer, Two Timer get away from me, now!

DOOM & GLOOM

Rising from the darkness, harbinger of woe

Lurkin’ through the forest, clamorin’ my bones

Madness fills my eyes, crushing all I see

There’s nowhere to hide

It’s the GLOOM’s gettin’ over me!

EvenStar is fading, every color grey

Nothin’s gonna escape, c’mon you prayed for judgment day DIDN’T YOU!

Demons in the sky, monsters in the sea

Satan’s laughin’ on wall street, he knows the

GLOOMS getting you and me! OH NO!
OH GOD NO!

19 LASHES

How dare you present yourself to me

As something that is real, as something that I need now, Eddie!

How dare you, you treat me justa like, I’m powerless despite

The match about to light, now I’m ready.

You better give up the keys to a better driver

You better give up the cards to a better dealer

You better give up the cash to a better gambler

You better give it up you give it what you give the mic, oh give it to a better singer! YEAH YEAH!

You’re a little man, with your little plans.

You take what others need you take everything you can

The rich man’s laughin’ while the dogs are forced to fight

You’re a snake that hides to bite, mow you’re gonna pay MOTHER FUCKER

MOTHER FUCKER! 

You wouldn’t listen to the prophets

You wouldn’t listen to the saints

I could rise up from the dead, you wouldn’t hear what I got to say.

Now you’re gonna pay! (mother fucker!)

Now you’re gonna pay!

Now you’re gonna pay! (Oh!)

Now you’re gonna pay!

Well now you’re gonna, well now you’re gonna, well now you’re gonna pay!

The Long Road

If the odds were against you and ever dwindling, my friend

If the flame of your house should go out and you’re left out in the cold wind

Well I, I, I’ll stay with you.

And aye, aye, that’s what I’ll do.

And if the old Grey Messenger arrives at your door and he bids you to go

Down the ashen shores, through the dark mines, over plains where the horsemen ride

It’s a long road, I know, but I, I’ll walk it with you

And aye, Aye. That’s what I’ll do.

And if you arrive at the Old Town to find rings of smoke, and the firelight

Well, I know the levy that it won’t hold against this rising tide, the tide!

But I, I’m gonna stay by your side

And Aye, Aye, I’m gonna tell you that it’s alright.

Well, you’re callin’ out to me, callin’ me by name, callin’ out to me in your hour of need

Well, you’re callin’ out to me, callin’ me by name, callin’ out to me and I come to you

Because I, well, I got no fear

Their war machines are powered by greed, ahhhh…

Feel it down, and I feel it down, and I feel it down…

Feel it down, and I feel it down, and feel it down…

 Oh….

Come sit beside me, my old friend, by the firelight, let me look into your eyes

Let us weave our tales like an old ghost kept alive by the night

Let us leave our mark on the young ones who follow, who follow.

May all the ages know how we stood as two

Man I told you, I told you, I told you

My love was true.

HEAVY ON MAIN

It’s gettin’ heavy on Main Street.

It’s gettin’ heavy for you and me.

It’s gettin’ heavy on Main Street

WHY DON’T YOU WHY DON’T YOU COME ON OUT HERE AND SEE

Well, they love yah when you’re blown full of holes

They LOVE it when you can’t say NO!!!

They like yah when you’re on your knees

WHY DON’T YOU WHY DON’T YOU COME ON OUT HERE AND SEE

Shots fired when you’re steppin’ out of line,

Nothing you can do tonight…

Whattaya gonna be, a little girl about it?

A conspiracy of doubters.

You’re not as safe as you’ve been led to think

WHY DON’T YOU WHY DON’T YOU COME ON OUT HERE AND SEE

THEY KEEP IT HEAVY ON MAIN STREET

They keep it HEAVY HEAVY

They keep it HEAVY HEAVY

They keep it HEAVY HEAVY

They keep it HEAVY HEAVY

WITCH WIZARD

You take the time to write your name in ritual

You take the blame for all the pain they claim to feel

But it’s not your game and now you’re feelin’ fictional

But you’re just the same, your head and heart and all your anger

WITCH, WIZARD is this?

WITCH, WIZARD is this?

WITCH, WIZARD is this?

WITCH, WIZARD, THIS IS.

Stripped down in the dark, a wink could be the devil’s sign!

It piles onto their lies, “Quaking virgins”??? BATHROOM STYES!

Gather around and let my spirit protect you

Enter the shrine and breathe the smoke of UNDEAD DRUIDS!

WITCH, WIZARD is this?

WITCH, WIZARD is this?

WITCH, WIZARD is this?

WITCH, WIZARD, THIS IS.

It isn’t you that they should be afraid of

It isn’t you with your charming spell of love

Deception marks the idol’s feet they worship at

They call me all things: a monster, saint, a girl? A man? But

WITCH, WIZARD is this?

WITCH, WIZARD is this?

WITCH, WIZARD is this?

WITCH, WIZARD, THIS IS.

SHADOW

They’re standing at the gate

They’re standing straight and they’re tall

There’s no more time to wait

Send the women, send the women, away down the hall

‘Cause we’re the last to go.

There’s war and suicide

It’s written in their eyes

They’re setting fire to the stone

From the babes, from the babes, down to the crones

And I know that they’re coming, leave no one alive

And it doesn’t matter if we live or we die

We’re already past our time

Now there’s voices in the air

And there’s pounding at the door

My plans, my past, my name are in ashes on the floor

And I know that they’re coming in for us now

To take the twelve of the deep who would hold out…

Hey, Shadow! Oh, that all our days should come down like this!

Hey, Shadow! Felled by shadows from the mist

I’m gonna put you down, down into the ground…

Hey, Shadow! Stay the hand that cuts down our holy trees

Hey, Shadow! Let us ride one more time from the deep

I’m gonna put you down, down into the ground…

AVALANCHE

I am a ghost upon the mountainside

The high wind is my voice, the altar of my cries

I am the story, the words whispered in the night

My lovelies, beware! For the mountain takes all life!

We set out under clear skies and good signs on that morning

We rode high and received no calls and there was no warning

I heard the thunder and I saw death’s shadow and

I still wait to be found amoung the souls buried below

How high does the snow lie, and how long will you look?

How high does the snow lie, and how long will you wait?

I heard the thunder, I felt the mountain coming down.

I heard the thunder, I felt the mountain coming down.

I heard the thunder, I felt the mountain coming down.

I hear the thunder, I feel the mountain coming down!

BLACK CAT (BANDSHEE III)

Well, the black cat crossed me, Waverly Lane.
Well, the black cat crossed me, Waverly Lane.
Well, the black crossed me, I ain't never been the same.
Sleeping babies cried, the crows took flight, lightening shot up from the ground to the sky.
When that black cat crossed me with it's one green eye.

I was walking by the river, I saw Jesus on the bridge.
I was walking by the river, I saw Jesus on the bridge.
In one hand he held up a railroad tie, in the other he had food for the pigeons.
He said, "That black cat cross you, girl, you don't need no religion."

Well, a sinkhole opened up in the middle of Baxter Street.
I said a sinkhole opened up in the middle of Baxter Street.
Now the yuppies and the hippies and the hipsters and retailers are lying in a hole down at my feet.
Well, that black cat cross you, you don't ask it what it means!

Well I changed all of the pollen in the air to hundred dollar bills.
Well I changed all of the pollen in the air to hundred dollar bills.
The devil rose before me, he said, "You don't have to adore me but I need fewer people down here on pills, ahhh!"
But the black cat crossed me, so I moved in for the kill!

Well, the black cat crossed me, it turned the night into the day.
Oh, the black cat crossed me, it turned the night into the day.
Well, that black cat crossed me, now everything is going my way!

BAD DAY (BANDSHEE III)

You started off my bad day with a bullet and a whisper through the news.
You know that's a bad way to do it; all alone in the hotel room.
The belly of the grand...

You left me with a bad taste on my tongue and I think about you every day.
I can't pretend that we're still young and I hate it; I don't wanna age this way.

It's a bad time to be left behind
C'mon, Satellite, can you make it right?
It's a bad night for the saturnine.
It's a bad time to be left alive...

Think about the last night on the wire, you were tired.
And now I'm feeling tired, too.
It's the kinda move you can't make twice
Into the belly of the grave.

It's in the moves you make that later will become the signs that we missed.
It's in the time it takes to glide across the tiles....
It's in the rhythm of your sighs.

It's a bad time to be left behind
C'mon, Satellite, can you make it right?
It's a bad night for the saturnine.
It's a bad time to be left alive...

BLACK MAGIC

Three girls ahead in sight
Holdin' hands, it don't feel right.
Watch 'em dance and then take flight
Now you know you're gonna die

You come beneath the green
Where you know you should not be
There's something that you need
That you can't get from a priest

I'll take a strand of your hair
Your longest fingernail
The breath out of your sighs
There's Black Magic here tonight!

Bring me the star of Anise,
Three days of your flame
The skin between your teeth
And I'll heal all your pain


I'll take a strand of your hair
Your longest fingernail
The breath out of your sighs
There's Black Magic here tonight!

Fire inspires new life
Deep inside

You cross the coven line
Bearing gifts of wine and life
Now your eyes are open wide
As you walk the woods at night
Now you know you're gonna die, yeah!

I'll take the life from your eyes
The breath that feeds all of your lies
The ancient firelight
There's Black Magic here tonight!

CURSE OF THE BANDSHEE

Don't come in this house tonight
You're arriving far too late
You bear no welcome here
You turned away from fate

You come to reap what you did now sow
You're like a ghost out of time and space
If this is to be my final moment
It's one that I embrace

There's a man down by the river way
He steers a boat made of bones and clay
His eyes are cloaked in a darkening wreath and I know
That he's coming for me.

There's a dragon out by my front door
He's breathing fire over me
But I been through hell before why
Should I fear a little heat

Your eyes can't see!
Your mind can't think!
You're lips can't speak!
Curse of the Bandshee!

Ya been cursed!
'Cuz you been cursed!

There's an old woman by my back door
Her eyes are darkened as my soul.
She won't leave until she gets what she needs, but
I can give her no more!
Because I been cursed!
Well, you been cursed!

There's a black dog in the middle of my street
No one sees him there, but me
Don't fight against your own end, but
Go down quietly
Ya been cursed!
Curse of the Bandshee.... look out!

DIAMONDS IN OUR PRIME

He's a shadow on the highway, you will never be safe.
He's the doubt across your mind
He's the one you left behind
He's the name that you cannot say
He's growing stronger every day

Colleen, why don't you tell it all to me?
We'll pour him out like tainted wine.
Just like we used to be.
Colleen, why don't you tell it all to me?
We'll pour him out like tainted wine.
'Cause we are diamonds in our prime.

He believes in love, he only wants to help you rise
But he's the one who's going to get to exercise all of his rights
He's everything that you need
And you will never be free
H's everywhere that you can be
And no one's gonna hear you scream

He's gonna dictate everything that you're allowed to hate
He only wants to help you out, but no one's gonna hear you shout
He only wants to help you know
Exactly what a woman that you are
And one of these nights, he'll be waiting by your car

Colleen, why don't you tell it all to me?
We'll pour him out like tainted wine.
Just like we used to be.
Colleen, why don't you tell it all to me?
We'll pour him out like tainted wine.
'Cause we are diamonds in our prime.

FORGOTTEN DAUGHTER

I'm your forgotten daughter
I'm the one put out of mind
I'm your forgotten daughter
And I live in a place out of space and time

I'm the one put out of mind
Remains of your right to life
I drink of the November rain
It's coming down in frozen sheets just like your pain

Cut me down, bring me down
One more time
Cut me down, bring me down
Just like unwanted vine

You whisper my name in your sleep
But no body's here to comfort me
Bodies will break and bones
They will creak
Nobody knows, nobody cares
What's beneath
So I say your name
I cry your name through these grinding
These grinding teeth

I'm your forgotten daughter
Prodigal memory
I'm your forgotten daughter
And I live beneath the hanging tree

WOMEN FOR SALE

I got women for sale, I got women for sale
I got women
They all for sale
I got pinup brides from 18 to 25
See 'em at the car show standing half naked in a line
Tuned up and ready
For a slow ride

I got blonds for a dollar
I got brunettes for two
Hold up your money, boys, I'm gonna sell 'em to you
Yeah, I got so many women for sale
Doctors, lawyers, bankers, teachers, and brilliant scientists
Quantized, qualified on a price list

Let the auction begin!
(Indistinct auctioneer noises meant to make you feel uncomfortable.)

Oh, you like Jennifer?
You wanna help her?
Oh, she's workin' so hard to win that boudoir shoot
Take your money out yo' pants
And stick it in her boots

Up next we got Jess
She's a redheaded mess
With a motor bike
Oh, you can walk up and touch her on her tip jars
Ooh, if you're seeing what you like
Won't you take your money, and stick it deep in that pretty girls pail
She's a woman for sale