And the knocks they came like thunder, Poundin down on my front door. "If you're lookin for my wife sir", "She don't live here anymore" In answer to your question, "I haven't heard any word, Officer", from my Mary Ellen
I know I'll quit drinkin. When I can bear the pain. The fear inside'a me quickens, I'll put it off for another day. The worst was me not knowin', What it was that made her stray. Sorry Lord, but I had to kill her, Sher never cared for me anyway. And I wonder, should I, Put a pot of coffee on?
But the rain keeps comin down, And the men at my front door keep knocking. Wanting to be let inside, These lonely walls that I've been locked in. Asking me to step outside. But the pistol in my hand is cocking and I pray, to my Mary Ellen. But the rain keeps on comin' down. And the men at my front door keep knocking, Wanting to be let inside. These lonely walls that I've been locked in. Asking me to step outside. But the life inside this body's goin', Gone away, to where I can't see, Sailing me, On a crimson stream, To my Mary Ellen.
Release me free me let me go, I'm twisted, wasted, blistered. Condemning voices scolding me. The faces, laced with basement wall. Ceiling raining down on me, the edge you're pushin me over. Sight beyond my eyes, I've lost my mind.
A river bank a passing queen, Vein of life deliver me, the dark it's warm am I alive? Worm, Cocoon, a Butterfly. The fly regurgitating, cleansed I'm pure, I'm fit, I'm lieing. The road to evil guides my way. I stray, the light please find me.
Shadowman, I'm feeling brown my strings are tangled twisted. Puppet lowering me down. And they tease me they're laughing. Pack of jackles bite at my heels my sole, the gravel it cuts me. Manipulation of my soul, Festering twisted
Over, over, turning, turning, twisted, twisted, Tangle.....
If you only knew what has befallen me. What am I keeping inside? Thoughts fo love, thoughts of life, twisted to shame and suicide. And a fathers love, shouldn't mean keeping, and bleeding, and secrets of Daddy's little Ho. I'm all alone, No...
And I collapsed today, my knees are so weak, body is withering. I don't live, but I don't die, I ask God why, he's not in tonight. Teacher please don't send me home. You're dialing the telephone. Now go fetch your coat ohh...
If you only knew, what has befallen me what am I keeping inside, thoughts of love, thoughts of bleeding and crying and cheating this madness won't hault. It's all my fault and you're not seeing the guilt that I'm feeling inside and it grows. Oh and it grows Oh...
Thunder, standin' in the pourin rain, Tryin to make sense of somethin. You're gonna say that I'm insane, But brother I ain't lyin. The other day, I'm walkin though the park mindin my business and I lost my heart. Whoa! Here's how the story goes... Young girl, lucky if she's even 18 it seems, she's lookin for somethin. Blue eyed, face just like a beauty queen. Indeed, my heart started pumpin. I know it sounds shallow, but this image in my head, can't let it go. No oh. Oh, everybody's fightin to see who is next guy in her life will be. Whoa!
I keep prayin it's me, but, My tounge gets tied, My knees get weak, I fall to the ground And then all the people say Whoa! Wha ho oh! People say.. Whoa! Wha ho oh! Angel won't you please look my way
I pray but nobody answers. Maybe if I knew the words to say we'd live happy ever after. I don't know how to let her know if she was mine, I'd never let her go, Oh no. Oh, every time that she comes around silent lips bring silent sounds. Angel, don't know if you can see could be, you're playin me or soemthin. I dance, entranced in the melody. I chase but you just keep a'runnin, one day I'm gonna catch you though. When I do, you'll never wanna let go... No oh.I know that you never dreamed that you were ever gonna give a damn for me. People say Whoa! Wha ho oh! People in the back say Whoa! Wha ho oh! The people up front say Whoa! Wha ho oh! Everybody in the house yell Whoa! Wha ho oh! Wha ho oh! Wha ho ohhh!!
(CHORUS)And so I saddle her up and say goodbye, make it easy on her, swallow my pride she's wild inside, won't be tamed and westward bound her heart is aiming. Be a man and let her run free, though she's becoming a part of me. Tell her you'll think of her every day but you can't live for now when tomorrow is calling you away.
She's a farmers daughter who oughtta been a boy, likes playing football over sissy girl toys. Skin like satin, tougher than wool, stubborn as a mule, headstrong like a bull. God couldn't have made a more perfect girl....
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(CHORUS)And On and On, all my insides out. Take my hand, pull me closer humbled in reality, to be kept from me. Come along, we shall promenade though the endless halls of the Masquerade.
Blindly charting, musical river. Unrestrained, flowing toward the confines of the canyon, echoing rhythm, restrained emotion. Hidden hint of silent truth, electrical limitation, desperate recreation. Does it feel familiar? A little bit familiar?
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One we play, in a nay portray as they promenade, through our masquerade. And you decieve me. I believed in you, you know it's true.
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I am content within myself, In my alienation and I may look like you through the guises you are blind to me. What is truly me. Cuz I deceive you. And you know this to be true.
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On we play, in a nay portray as I promenade, through my masquerade.