WITCH MOUNTAIN LYRICS

1. The Ballad Of Lanky Rae

A long time ago
On a dark-as-night day
A little girl came into this world
In a right wicked way

When she took her first breath
The doctor heard her say
"all you out there better beware
My name is Lanky Rae"

"Stay away" said Lanky Rae

She didn't like baby dolls
Barrettes or ballet
She thought a gun was much more fun
When she went out out to play

By the time she was 10
Hair already ash gret
She shot a man down stole a car and left town
Yeah that's what they say
What they say about Lanky Rae
Stay away from Lanky Rae

By the time she was grown
She'd grown into her name
7 feet tall and not graceful at all
But she could hit a mark from 3 miles away

But Rae was all alone
And to her dismay
She never had met her dad
So she hit the highway

She heard he was a demon
Deep down in the clay
So down she dove to the center she drove
And there stood the daddy of Lanky Rae

He held two 45s
And his hair was ash grey
Spittin' whiskey and fire and as soon as he saw her
Those two you could not separate

Now they roam the underworld
Raisin' hell everyday
Doin' what they do best and forget all the rest

So when the ground rumbles
Don't you be afraid
It's just a couple of outcasts happy at last
Yeah it's Lanky Rae

2. Beekeeper

Grow grow overflow gears will grind and steps will slow
Smoke smoke smells of oak pushed so hard it finally broke go
Fell fell fetid smell something rotting in its shell
Heal heal how you fell will determine what is real

Beekeeper beekeeper where where we leading to?
Why did so many go when they did not have to?

[Chorus]
Worm-eaten parasite acquisition
Paralytic poisonous superstition
The cycle of dominance and submission

Go go sink down low we will say we did not know
Rest rest acquiesce enter the endlessness

[Chorus]

3. Shelter

I move along a rubble strewn road
Shells of burnt out enclosures spell a cracked code:
Open to the air at last to breathe & fill as a cup of with rain
Then flow to release holes of relief

The citadel is finally in shards
It's gliterring shrapnel spead afar
Piercing the masses weeping fom teargazes
With a cold clean break an icy shatter it passes

I hope that I can find shelter before
Fewer ferries me to the far shore
I hope that I can find shelter before
I realize I can't recognize me anymore

Those who are seeking searching shrieking
For clean air to tear off those rooftops
A fiery secret for the dissatisfied the malcontent and the wise
Undisclosed to the overexposed is that nobody knows
Expose the throat to electric liquors
Caloric elixirs that build up the light
Till the brain fills up hemorrhages and flickers

I hope that I can find shelter before
Fewer ferries me to the far shore
I hope that I can find shelter before
I realize I can't recognize me anymore

I hope that we can find shelter before
Fewer ferries us to the far shore
I hope that we can find shelter before
We realize we can't recognize ourselves anymore

When the stars begin to tumble downward
And the earth is consumed by dust and war
I will go and I will not look backward
For there will be nothing to look for

I will not be waiting for a sign
I will drive into the setting sun
I may run dry of break down for the last time
But I won't stop till I reach the ocean

Cast off your cloak of failure

Eden in the aftermath

I will not be waiting for a sign
I will drive into the setting sun
I may run dry of break down for the last time
But I won't stop till I reach the ocean

4. Veil Of The Forgotten

What is the best way to offer it up in a cup or a bowl?
As Long as it's gold
Faces all over the walls peering in on the goings on

We will win with patience, cold in the stone
Gold Jade and blood, amethyst and bone

Watching for trembling and openings in careless gestures
No teeth sink deeper than teeth of time so we just watch it fester
Truly, What else do we hold?
A poverty of souls terrified and blood-soaked

We will win with patience, cold in the stone
Gold Jade and blood, amethyst and bone

Where did you think you'd end up?
And what are you to know?

You're friendless but worshiped
Threatening through the veil of the forgotten
Crumbling away,
Decay is covering the trail of the forgotten
friendless but worshiped threatening
Through the veil of the forgotten
Crumbling away,
Decay is covering the trail of the forgotten

...Slow surrender...

We will win with patience, cold in the stone
Cold jade and blood, amethyst and bone

Remember

5. Aurelia

You were mine
Remember the time?
The air smelled more like cinnamon
And pine

For a laugh
I kept the head of that rat
You kept my heard in that ratty old box
The kind that won't lock

With a knife in her hand
She was trying to stand
But with both feet bound
And no one around...

Oh Aurelia

My hair fell out after
I heard her laughter
She was crawling slowly
Calling out for Crowley

Oh Aurelia

I'll always remember
That long september
Blood on the stairs
The whole family was there

Oh Aurelia

There's no way outta here so just stay outta here
You don't talk in this town you don't walk in this town you just run run run
Keep your eyes on the ground you don't look in this town you run run run
And deny you'll never be done

You'll get sick around here
And it'll stick around here so just run run run
Things rot quick around here
So don't stick around here just run run run
Oh you'll never be done

My Aurelia goodbye Aurelia

6. Never Know

I never know if you're dead
Maybe you are...at the bottom of the ocean in the back of a car
On a dirty bed in a crumbling room...
Oh baby what's your room?
Don't know if you're dead but I like it that way
Cause you know if I knew don't know what I'd do

You were in the bathroom on your hands and knees
Your eyes empty sockets your howling ghostly
Something wet spreading my insides were sinking
You took too much honey what were you thinking?
Don't know if you're dead but I like it that way
Cause you know if I knew don't know what I'd do

Will you do lots of bad things baby
But about those I don't think twice
Far as I'm concerned from waht I've learned
Being far from me is your only vice
Don't know if you're dead but I like it that way
Cuz you know if I knew don't know what I'd do

If you had to go then why did you not leave my heart behind?

It dies a little baby every time I think you're gone
Every time I get it in my head that something's going wrong
I think that this will finally be the time your luck runs out
And I'll be left wondering what this love was all about...
Don't know if you're dead but I like it that way
Cause you know if I knew don't know what I'd do

It don't matter where you go
To the highest or the lowest low
Cause I'm gonna find you
And we'll be home







WITCH MOUNTAIN LYRICS