Sad Witch Cult

He took me to the drive in movie
I was so happy he asked
I borrowed my mother’s best earrings
I wore my prettiest dress

Soon as the movie started
He put your hand on my breast
Something inside me just shattered
It made me so low down depressed

I’m tired of being a good girl
So tired of being so nice
I want this charade to be over
I want his dead body on ice

His eyes had an animal hunger
There was sweat glistening on his brow
I sat there so still and so silent
This was something I could not allow

I clenched my left hand and I hit him
Right in his stupid flushed face
I felt his nose break in two places
Then I pushed my thumbs through his eyes

I’m tired of being a good girl
So tired of being so nice
I want this charade to be over
I want his dead body on ice

I opened the door and saw Maggie
Holding a popcorn and coke
I waved to her and she whistled
Then I went to the bathroom to smoke

When I got home my mother was waiting
She asked if I had a good time
I told her it was just amazing
I learned so much on this dark night

I’m tired of being a good girl
So tired of being so nice
I want this charade to be over
I want his dead body on ice

It was midnight
I was standing in the dark
When out in the woods I heard screams
I covered my ears and closed my eyes
Hoping this was only just a dream

Oh I felt a burning flame on my lips
I smelled sulfur breath on my cheek
Satan kissed me
Told me he’d love me forever
Satan kissed me
Now we’re going steady he’s my feller

I danced naked
And smoked devil grass galore
Drank me a bottle of bootleg whiskey
Didn’t know who I was anymore
It was better than anything before

Oh I felt a burning flame on my lips
I smelled sulfur breath on my cheek
Satan kissed me
Told me he’d love me forever
Satan kissed me
Now we’re going steady he’s my feller

Then on Sunday
All the girls were so jealous
At church as we whispered our sins
Lily said I was not a lady
I don’t care ’cause I’m having his baby

Oh I felt a burning flame on my lips
I smelled sulfur breath on my cheek
Satan kissed me
Told me he’d love me forever
Satan kissed me
Now we’re going steady he’s my feller

I can’t wait for our wedding
Gosh it’ll be swell
I can’t wait for our wedding
In the dark pits of Hell
I can’t wait for our wedding
Gosh it’ll be swell
I can’t wait for our wedding
In the dark pits of Hell
I can’t wait for our wedding
Gosh it’ll be swell

So lonesome
The sun goes down
Hear voices
No one’s around
Drink wine
The bottle falls over
Pass out
On blue velvet sofa

Honey I’m here all alone
I pick up the phone
Dial tone

Depressed
So many pills
Can’t sleep
Pacing the hall
Ancient clock
Ominous ticking
Dried blood
Casually licking

Honey I’m here all alone
I pick up the phone
Dial tone

The lights
Flickering dimly
I climb
The witch’s broom
Why won’t
Medicine help me
Can’t I
Ever be healthy?

Honey I’m here all alone
I pick up the phone
Dial tone

These tears
Never stop falling
Can’t bear
Another sad morning
This dark
Goes on forever
It ends
Now or not ever

Honey I’m here all alone
I pick up the phone
Dial tone

I’m not so bad
Don’t you believe me?
Those won’t be scars
You’re hardly bleeding

Lips to devour
These hips soft and warm
Come over here
Step into the storm

Like a cobra I’m swaying
In the garden of night

I am the fear
And I am the sadness
Give me a kiss
Baby I’m the abyss

Don’t close your eyes
Witness the sin
Nothing to hide
When I shed my skin
Oh it is hot
Sweat keeps on sticking
Your breathing is done
Soon you’ll stop kicking

Like a cobra I’m swaying
In the garden of night

I am the fear
And I am the sadness
Give me a kiss
Baby I’m the abyss

Deep in the night
There I will wait
Feasting on lust
Gorging on hate

Nothing remains
When I am through
Gaze into me
I gaze into you

Like a cobra I’m swaying
In the garden of night

I am the fear
And I am the sadness
Give me a kiss
Baby I’m the abyss

Yes I am the fear
And I am the sadness
Give me a kiss
Baby I’m the abyss
Baby I’m the abyss
I’m the abyss
I’m the abyss

They wondered how the fire started
It was just my little joke
Feeling so bored and broke hearted
Poured gasoline on the sick oak

Slowly the wind started blowing
Slowly the fire was growing

From one match there grew this inferno
I felt so proud and alive
Watching it eating the suburb
From windows the neighbors did dive

Flame
Beautiful flame
Burn it all
Take it away

Then came the music of sirens
A choir of emergency screams
Ambulance, fire truck, police car
A parade of broken old dreams

Slowly the wind started blowing
Slowly the fire was growing

I saw it spread to the shingles
On the new garage father built
It ate through the vinyl so quickly
Faster than hope it did melt

Flame
Beautiful flame
Burn it all
Take it away

And now I feel so much better
All that was wrong seems so right

The vast sky above doesn’t scare me
When filled with my destructive light

Slowly the wind started blowing
Slowly the fire was growing

Again we must move somewhere new
Where no one has met me and cried
We will pretend I am different
Like no one around me has died

Flame
Beautiful flame
Burn it all
Take it away

When I can’t sleep
I sit up and worry
So many fears
Pour through my soul
I chew on my nails
And bite through my lips
My hope fades behind
A total eclipse

Like a deer on the wall
Victims
I’ve seen it all

The future
The future
The future looks grim
Oh the light
Oh the light
Oh the light’s getting dim

I pierce my ears
With an old safety pin
Try to escape
The doom in my head
It always comes back
Stranger and stronger
The panic I feel
Lasts longer and longer

Like a deer on the wall
Victims
I’ve seen it all

The future
The future
The future looks grim
Oh the light
Oh the light
Oh the light’s getting dim

There must be something
To calm this unease
One secret word
A comforting breeze
Soon I’ll revert
To the primeval
Rotting like cotton
Beneath the boll weevil

Like a deer on the wall
Victims
I’ve seen it all

The future
The future
The future looks grim
Oh the light
Oh the light
Oh the light’s getting dim

The future
The future
The future looks grim
Oh the light
Oh the light
Oh the light’s getting dim

There must be something to calm this unease
One secret word
A comforting breeze

I happened to look out the window
There were skeletons dancing around
An owl in a tree started shrieking
I covered my ears and laid down

Something unearthly was coming
I felt it way down in my bones
The rain on the roof sounded frightful
Like nails in a coffin of wood

Oh midnight
Dim starlight
On a summer of blight
The moon was as bright as the sun
Oh midnight
Dim starlight
On a summer of blight
Matilda dear what have we done?

The ice in my cup was all melted
Makeup was smeared on my face
In the wall creatures were scratching
They sounded much bigger than mice

That date with Ricky was awful
He was drunk and he wanted a kiss
I was so angry I slapped him
He laughed and grabbed onto my wrist

Oh midnight
Dim starlight
On a summer of blight
The moon was as bright as the sun
Oh midnight
Dim starlight
On a summer of blight
Matilda dear what have we done?

What happened next is a secret
I promised I never would tell
My best friend was there and she helped me
But gee something sure is not well

It was not magic or witchcraft
Nor was it violence filled hate
Our vengeance was something so simple
Now look at the mess we did make

Oh midnight
Dim starlight
On a summer of blight
The moon was as bright as the sun
Oh midnight
Dim starlight
On a summer of blight
Matilda dear what have we done?

One day I’ll live
In a house full of cats
I’ll wear a black crown
And my withered prom dress
It will be awful
A terrible mess

Ivy your name
To me like a poison
I don’t remember
How it got on my tongue
I’ll spit it out now
While I’m still young

Turn the mirrors backward
So nobody leaves

Promise you’ll think of me
While I still breathe
Give me my solitude
Don’t break down the door
No matter what horrible
Noises you hear
Creatures of darkness
Feral winged rats
Leave me my sadness
In a house full of cats

Out here it’s cold
It keeps getting colder
The gun on my hip
It pulls me down slow
Men wearing antlers
With nowhere to go

This is not safe
I need to think clearly
Gore splatters the walls
And pours down the stairs
Vertigo spinning
Fear raising hairs

Turn the mirrors backward
So nobody leaves

Promise you’ll think of me
While I still breathe
Give me my solitude
Don’t break down the door
No matter what horrible
Noises you hear
Creatures of darkness
Feral winged rats
Leave me to my sadness
In a house full of cats

I’ll Turn the mirrors backward
So nobody leaves
Promise you’ll think of me
While I still breathe
I’ll Turn the mirrors backward
So nobody leaves

Tear you open
Drink your blood
We two soon shall be as one
I want to stay with you all night

Eat your heart
Wear your skin
Be whatever you have been
I want to stay with you all night

Elizabeth Bathory
I kneel to thee
Come to
Please come to
Please come to me

Eternal youth
Virgin death
Please let me breathe in your breath
I want to stay with you all night

Pile the bones
Bury the heads
Meet me in gore soaking beds
I want to stay with you all night

Elizabeth Bathory
I kneel to thee
Come to
Please come to
Please come to me

I’ll be waiting
I’ll be waiting
By the ruined castle gates
I’ll be waiting
I’ll be waiting
However long it takes

I’ll be waiting
I’ll be waiting
By the ruined castle gates
I’ll be waiting
I’ll be waiting
However long it takes

Elizabeth Bathory
I kneel to thee
Come to
Please come to
Elizabeth Bathory
I kneel to thee
Come to
Please come to
Please come to me

Ugly
Not you but me
Can’t break the habit
Just let me be

Ugly
Outside and in
Don’t try to change it
Leprosy wins

Oh oh oh
Ugly, ugly, ugly
So ugly

Ugly
This was my choice
A shadow fading
Gave up my voice

The speakeasy doors are carefully chained
The bed where I’m resting is cold and unmade

Ugly
Can’t find the road
Beckoning weirdness
Tongue on the toad

Oh oh oh
Ugly, ugly, ugly
So ugly

The speakeasy doors are carefully chained
The bed where I’m resting is cold and unmade

Oh oh oh
Ugly, ugly, ugly
So ugly

The speakeasy doors are carefully chained
The bed where I’m resting is cold and unmade

Oh oh oh
Ugly, ugly, ugly
So ugly

Gee whiz things got ugly
Gee whiz things got ugly

It’s a carnivorous world
But I’ve hardly seen it
I’ve barely dreamed it
Confined to my bed
In the state mental ward

Oh honey it’s been so hard
They’ve given me treatments
Ice baths and beatings
Shock therapy and
Blood cleansing leeches
Nothing has worked at all
I see faces in the wall

Pilgrim State Hospital
Brentwood, New York
I’m sending this postcard
In hopes
That someone’s still there
That someone still cares

When the stock market crashed
In nineteen twenty nine
I thought the occult
Would clear up my mind
Pentagrams, séances
Ouija board summonings

It was just a bust
The voices kept talking
Not ghosts or demons
Just the ones in my brain
Trying to keep me
What they call insane

Pilgrim State Hospital
Brentwood, New York
I’m sending this postcard
In hopes
That someone’s still there
That someone still cares

No window to look out
The minutes like glaciers
Slowly consuming
The wreck of my days
But take your time baby
I know you’ll save me

You said you were coming
I heard you last night
As my fingernails tore
Through the thin dirty sheets
I bet I’d get better
If you wrote me a letter

Pilgrim State Hospital
Brentwood, New York
I’m sending this postcard
In hopes
That someone’s still there
That someone still cares

Pilgrim State Hospital
Brentwood, New York
I’m sending this postcard
In hopes
That someone’s still there
That someone still cares

Is it over so soon
Calliope moon
Has the carnival
Come to an end?

Is it over so soon
Calliope moon
Are the living as
Still as the dead?

Oh calliope moon
I thought that you were infinite
The night echoed a silent threat
Now it’s like we never met
What happened?
What happened to
Our secret world?

Is it over so soon
Calliope moon?
We will never fall back
Back to the stars

Is it over so soon
Calliope moon?
Our hearts trapped inside
Cold killing jars

Oh calliope moon
I thought that you were infinite
The night echoed a silent threat
Now it’s like we never met

What happened?
What happened to
Our secret world?

Is it over so soon
Calliope moon?