1. APPALACHIAN REVENANT

The heat was painstaking
The Dream was growing darker
He couldn't hear me breathe
He couldn't wait much longer

You have mistaken me for the dead

The sun would never set
The days kept growing longer
Concern had turned to grief
Buried beside my daughter

I will return again
Defend my place of unrest
My screams will echo now
Into a place I was lost

I'll never let you cry alone


2. OCTAVIA HATCHER

Wings flutter, bury me
Mistaken, condition
Eyes fixed on, summer dream
Speech frozen, inside me

I am alive

Pull your tongue out

Stalking, watching, waiting


3. EVERLASTING FAINT

She walks on down from the burial ground

Drifter, murder, hide her wounds in your own hands
Elva, Zona, bury her before they understand
Exhumed, examined, the demand of a ghost that will not rest
Tragic, third wife, everlasting faint the cause of death

She walks on down from the burial ground

How dare you take a life from me
Son of a bitch, how you walk free
Elva comes to me at night
A gaping neck in the yellow moonlight
Now it's clear what I have to do
The testimony of a ghost will convict you
Now in jail, a life to keep
When the night comes, she'll never let you sleep

Never let you sleep

She walks on down from the burial ground

Never let you sleep


4. EVERY TIME YOU LOOK BACK, SHE'S CLOSER

She stopped breathing
As the warmth fled to her waist
Once inside her body
Now a dark copper taste

Scream cut short
Wordless panicked eyes
Erasmus has a knife
Body upright, head faces behind

The evening rain fell through her shape
A fresh grave held her body in two parts
She became an energy, a communicator
The wind guided her through town without evidence
She made her way to her mothers room
She discovered her on a sweat covered mattress
She looked down upon her and said
It's time to wake up

Mother, the drifter is a killer

Avenge me