Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks

If I were dead you'd be my coffin To rest my weary body inside The nights are chilly The days are misty But I'm inside you I'm inside you Inside your skeletal frame The wind is angry tonight It seems to be shrieking my name The nights are...

With one unthinking motion I fell into the ocean And sunk down to the bottom Of your heart Everything was broken But I went right on hoping That someday we would never Be apart Now all I see Are bones, bones, bones All I see are bones, bones Bones...

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 everythin...

Bone orchard rise bone orchard rise Tear down tear down these skies Oooooo Oooooo 

Everywhere he’d go his shadow would follow He tried to hide within the light But his shadow did follow He walked up to his mother His shadow did follow He told her he was frightened His shadow did follow All night long he’d try to cry himself to sleep...

Cities spread like cancer ‘cross the land I’ve had ‘bout as much as I can stand There’s nothing that I would not do To get revenge for what they’ve put us through There is no escape in this world From the things I abhor It’s all been ruined By the man,...

Well welcome all you little girls with your arms in the air, and your hands reaching for the crows I'd love to fall in your arms I'd love to fall in your arms By mistake in the middle of the lake There's a book that is floating to the shore I'd love to...

They climbed on his back And drained all his strength They called them poltergeists From where did they come? From God or from man? Or from some darker hand? The sky was red and falling He heard their fearful gnawing Along his spine their claws entwin...

It comes every evening After supper’s over I go out a-wandering through Darkness, darkness, darkness, darkness Birds fly ‘round in circles And dogs lie ‘neath the tree Where I stumble and lose my place in the Darkness, darkness, darkness, darkness I...

Wonder wonder what will be the death of me? Wonder when they’ll put me down below? Will they call you darling on the telephone And tell you that you’re better off alone? When death calls me I won’t go Don’t let me go When will that old moon come rising...

Dream dream I’ll dream of you Close my eyes when the day is through My true love’s dead but I’ll see her in my head When I lay my body on the bed Dream dream I’ll dream of you Close my eyes when the day is through The night she died she said to me “Ton...

The worst feeling I’ve ever known That’s what I’ve been feeling today I’m all out of drugs and all out of hope Lord take this heartsick feeling away ‘Cause it’s hard coming home to an empty house The dog I had I put him to rest ‘Cause he tore up the gir...

Whirlwind, whirlwind take me back To the days before the accident Everyone’s here for the feast of fear Whirlwind, whirlwind we’re all dust Among these beasts who can I trust? Everyone’s here for the feast of fear Blow it away Blow it all away Whirlw...

I’ve done it again I’ve given into that sin I’ve fallen so hard I’m breathless again I can’t walk that line You know I never would And my heart stops time To think that I could I can’t sleep at night And Lord, I cry everyday And I’ve run out of pill...

Everyone’s saying my mind is unsound ‘Cause I always see you when you aren’t around I see you in pages of old dusty books I see you in places no one else looks Oh I’m going crazy You’re driving me crazy I went out walking alone in the park I heard you...

It has been so long since I have seen the light of day Sickness fell upon our home And carried you away Tearing out, tearing out You’re tearing out my heart Long ago and far away When everything was grand I held you just like a bird Within my tired...

It seemed to me that summer It would never come again I watched the snow through dusty windowpanes Every time I dreamed at night I woke up filled with terror Silent things were floating in the air And I wonder how you sleep And I wonder how you breathe...

In the gloaming of the night When all the lights are shivering I am thinking of you dear And on the floor I’m withering And I know that you miss me And I know that you’re sorry Wherever you are Into the phone I carved your voice Up to my ear I hold it...

Seasons changing without warning Changing as we sleep Apples rotting on the hillside Where we used to meet Long, long ago Long, long ago Nightmares forming on the window Mocking and obscene Dripping down unto the pillow Where you used to dream Lon...

Walking home late from midsummer fair A drunken man stumbled alone A bitter wind blew through the dirt in his hair And the branches were rattling like bones like bones The branches were rattling like bones Suddenly a pack of glowing black dogs Came boun...

No one must know That you are here Lost in the dark of my cold heart If they could look What terror they’d see Here in the dark of my cold heart Cruel as a storm at sea Dim as the light that guided thee Walking a trail Through bright dead leaves B...

Over this hill there’s happiness Just around the bend there’s happiness Oh I wish that it were so All our precious work is meaningless In the cold vacuum of time it’s meaningless And we know that it is so Searching through these ruins for tenderness C...

All that’s left are those who are scarred Those who are buried and those who are burned But those untouched, oh how they’re afraid They watch me, and they’ll hate me, until the grave Oh how they circle, oh Lord, how they prey They wait for me, and they w...

In the violent October 1347 A ship from far Asia did sail into port In the cargo were rats all covered with fleas Come to old Europe to spread their disease Pneumonic bubonic and oh worst of all Septicemic plague would kill in an hour They hid in their...

Why do you lay with the sheep every night? I know you are one of the wolves When it is dark and the moon it is bright Hate fits your heart like a glove I’ve taken you for granted What is the name of the curse in your eyes? Never its kind have I seen Co...

It’s only the booze That makes me feel this way And it’s only the drugs That make me wanna stay This world is crashing Fallin’ to the ground Ain’t no need to worry ‘Cause that’s where I’ll be found I’m tired of breakin’ those hearts I’m tired of waki...

Soon you’ll be going, soon you’ll be gone Soon you’ll be sleeping under the pond My heart is breaking, my heart is broke You were my final undying hope Why must they lie? Why must they cheat? Why must I put them all down to sleep? There is a river burn...

How many times will you tell me these lies? How many times will I cry? How many times will you threaten suicide? How many times will I cry? I sit in bright red In those fires that I spread Burning bright with a new one to love And you lay in your bed...

There’s something in the stars tonight There’s something in the stars And I can’t be away from you No more, no more Gather up your broken bones And gather up your tears We’ve been on this crooked path For years, for years Scars upon my eyes and face...

There was an old woman all skin and bones Ooooo She lived down by the old graveyard Ooooo One night she thought she’d take a walk Ooooo She walked down by the old graveyard Ooooo She saw the bones a-laying around Ooooo She went to the closet to get a...

You’re knee deep But I’m up to my neck Don’t worry baby It’s something you wont regret We’ll take one more breath Before we go down ‘Cause I’ll tell you right now, baby We were meant to drown Well we got time now Ain’t no need to rush in You can ca...

The time had come to throw him overboard The ocean pulsed just like an ugly sore His clothes were torn his skin all ripped and red He thought of all the things that could have been The creatures of the deep they circled ’round He saw their fins and heard...

The River was full as I rode into town A ballerina danced from a hole in the ground and all of the suicidal children waved Cause they saw her knife and they saw her blade and all of the gloomy children smiled for she was the mother of sorrow I knocked o...

On a cold winter night With the moon big and bright As the town lay asleep in their beds Near the old rusted gate By the side of the lake Lay Mary with an axe in her head In the morning they found Her sad withered bones Some children just walking to sc...

Hear her scratching at the window He knew that she’d be back Though many years have passed now She’s finally home at last And the grave may hold her bones Her skin be soft with mold But the grave can’t hold her ghost Ooooo Ooooo Her lips so black an...

Those tear ducts broke A flood came out There was no soul in whom I could confide The thoughts I held In your nightmares dwelled And they crushed me like the incoming tide That unnameable pain That incurable longing for something But there is nothing...

Let’s go hide beneath the water Let’s escape this painful summer I can’t bear another night I’ll wait for you outside And I’ve been watching through your window And I’ve been swallowing the rain Oh I’ve been worried about tomorrow ‘Cause everything is...

The wind through the trees makes no sound Underground, underground Nothing but bones and old dreams So it seems, so it seems But sometimes she hears him moan “Please help me, please help me.” But you cannot be saved from the grave No you cannot be saved...