Disc 1:
1. Witchcraft Tavern
2. Song of Samuel
3. What He Said
4. Tragedy
5. Welcome to Redemption
6. The Spark that Starts the Fire
7. Dirty Gospel
8. A Gathering
9. Baptized Bodies
Disc 2:
1. Your Father's House / Upside-Down
2. Storm Moves
3. Sympathy for the Reverend
4. Black Blood Rising
5. Afraid
6. Scaffold
7. Black Magic Rainfall
8. Jailbreak on the Mountain
9. Battle for Redemption
Lyrics:
Child of the Earth
Disc 1:
1. Witchcraft Tavern
Fireside at the Witchcraft Tavern
Evil site of the blackest coven
Glory, glory of the Darkness,
I'm breathing the night
And it's lovely.
I'm drinking in the wake
And I'm singing in the dust
The dust of American Magick
Give me... give me your curse.
2. Song of Samuel
There was a boy who was born
With an evil heart.
He had a soul that was soaked
All in soot black tar
But our boy was meant to be a hero.
Our boy was meant to be redeemed.
Wrestle your angel and limp through the dark.
Carry your cross and your curse to the start.
3. What He Said
Well you can tell 'em bout how you was struck by the sound
Of the loveliest laugh that you ever did hear,
How she took your pain, held your darkness at bay,
All your hatred and fear, how it all disappeared.
But it's just like your daddy said,
If you're believin' in love, than your believin' in nothin'.
Cause be it death or difference there'll come a time when it's gone
There ain't no way you can stop it
It's just like your daddy said,
If you're believin' in love, than your believin' in nothin'.
Cause be it death or difference
There'll come a time when it's gone.
Samuel:
Oh come on, my love, you're all I've got
And I don't understand why there's any doubt,
You know the moment you leave it's gonna break in me.
All the locks and levees, baby, gonna be released.
But it's just like your daddy said,
If you're believin' in love, than your believin' in nothin'.
Cause be it death or difference there'll come a time when it's gone
There ain't no way you can stop it
It's just like your daddy said,
If you're believin' in love, than your believin' in nothin'.
Cause be it death or difference
There'll come a time when it's gone.
4. Tragedy
Samuel:
My whole life has been a tragedy
My whole life has been a tragedy
Why can't the good Lord do a little good by me.
My whole life has been a tragedy.
Mama drowned in the lake
And I watched my father drink himself into the grave
The Prattle sisters, bless their souls, they took me in
But the townsfolk said they was witches and they burned at the stake.
My whole life has been a tragedy
My whole life has been a tragedy
Why can't the good Lord do a little good by me.
My whole life has been a tragedy.
You should see the way the townspeople look at me
The reverend and his superstitious sheep
They say I'm cursed, and lately maybe I agree,
And so I go to church and I pray and read and sing
I sing and I sing and I sing.
My whole life has been a tragedy
My whole life has been a tragedy
Why can't the good Lord do a little good by me.
My whole life has been a tragedy.
But when the clouds part, yes, it must be the Divine
A hand that wipes the tears out from your eyes
You are the only blue sky I've ever seen
Oh, the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen.
5. Welcome to Redemption
The Reverend:
We built this town on solid ground
Sing Hallelujah, Sing Hallelujah.
Every tongue, every knee shall bow.
Sing Hallelujah, Sing Hallelujah.
Welcome to Redemption.
Welcome to the rest of your life.
We bound the devil, he was casted down
Sing Hallelujah, Sing Hallelujah
We found his hornets nest and smoked them out.
Sing Hallelujah, Sing Hallelujah.
Welcome to Redemption.
Welcome to the rest of your life.
Where there's fear in your heart
There is land for the seed to be planted.
If we toil together
The harvest will come by and by.
Is your house built on sand?
Is your family well and protected?
There is refuge for you and your kin
If you walk in the light.
There are lines you must walk
You must walk
Always walk in the lines.
6. The Spark that Starts the Fire
The Reverend:
All the plans that we made together
Walking through the trees
They still haunt me in my sleep
They still come to me in dreams.
I remember picking flowers to put them in your hair
You told me you were scared of something touching you at night.
Something isn't right.
She said, "It feels so much darker in America at night.
Let's not stray too far from the light."
She started having dreams about a storm flooding the town
It always made her cry to even speak of it at all.
Visions of the church collapsing in upon itself
The only place to hide with all the prisoners breaking out.
She always held me tight.
She said, "It feels so much darker in America at night.
Let's not stray too far from the light."
I said, "It's hard for me to know when you don't look me in the eye."
Let's not stray too far from the light
Sometimes in a flash you understand why you were born
All the children in this town are so afraid.
No, the children they should never be afraid,
Oh the children they should never be afraid.
7.Dirty Gospel
Samuel:
Now honey, I know you ain't been here before,
But there's some truth I've gotta show you
There's some gospel that you've gotta know,
As I evangelize to your inner thighs.
The way my hand's movin' up real slow
The way my fingers loosen up your belt
The way that liquor trickles down your throat.
The way it feels to just let it go
It's alright to just let it go
It's alright to just lose control
It's alright, I'm here to let you know
It's alright, you know you gotta let it out
Now don't be surprised if you feel guilty tonight
It's just the way you was raised and it's a damn crime.
I'm gonna show you the way I like it too now,
I'm gonna show you a secret you should do now.
It's alright to just let it go
It's alright to just lose control
It's alright, I'm here to let you know
It's alright, you know you gotta let it out
It's alright...4x
Now lemme sing it in your ear
Lemme sing it real sweet
S-s-s-sing it real sweet.
Just, j-j-j, just.
Just, just, just, just
Alright.
8. A Gathering
We have gathered you all here,
To tell you the time is drawing near
When we shall walk the streets again
And be a people without sin.
Look at all the sad, sad people,
Dragging their feet across the hard ground.
Carrying their heavy burdens
As the good Word drags them down.
One day nature will cover over
All your temples, churches and synagogues.
All the pretty steeples gonna come, come tumbin' down.
Unto us a child is born
So human, so divine.
Unto us a kingdom comes like rays of sun
Through the twisting of the vines.
It's time.
One day nature will cover over
All your temples, churches and synagogues.
All the pretty steeples gonna come, come tumbin' down.
Yeah, we're talking bout the weight of guilt
And the weight of God,
The weight of sin
The weight of law. 4x
Well lay your burdens down.
It's time.
9. Baptized Bodies
The Reverend:
In the Name of the Name of the Name of the Name of the Name of the Name of the Name of the Name of...
You've got to baptize the bodies
Till all the sin is good and gone.
You've got to lay him under water
Till all the black breath bubbles up.
You've gotta shake up that old man
Till all his habits break apart.
You've gotta hold that sinner down
Till all the fight in him goes out.
If the breathing doesn't start
There was no good left in his heart.
You better hope when you are drownin' boy,
The the Lord sees somethin' in you that is still worth saving.
You've got to baptize the bodies. You've got to baptize the bodies.
You've got to hold that sinner down till all the fight in him goes out.
There'll be no thrashin' or flailin' in the Kingdom of God.
Samuel:
And lying in the noontime in a field upon the grass
A sudden wind, a flower falling, landed on my wrist,
So soft and white and delicate and crumbling to the touch,
I don't know why it happened but I thought of Mother then.
Sometimes I can almost remember...
Like shadows in the doorway
Or the voices in my head
My father saying, "Everything is always in God's hands."
Sometimes I can almost remember.
Child of the Earth
Disc 2:
1. Your Father's House / Upside-Down
Samuel:
Sometimes when I reach
You pull your hand away from me.
That's when I know
You've been spoken to again.
The burning in your eyes and chest,
The shortness in your breath,
Oh yes, I know,
You've been spoken to again.
If it's your father's house and father's law
That comes between our love,
What if we ran off into the sun?
Surely there are worlds beyond the limits of this town,
Maybe there's a place where we can make up all the rules
For ourselves.
I can't stop my every thought's of you now
I try to wrap my mind around the truth and the distance.
Everything I thought I knew was wrong.
I'm so glad you came along
And turned me upside down.
All my sense is running out my head
I'm breaking every rule and all the boundaries that I have set.
Everything I thought I knew is wrong,
I'm so glad you came along
And turned me upside down.
You turn me upside down.
Lilith
All of the darkness that's surrounded you,
Well I may not be the light,
But I can share it too.
And maybe we could leave together.
Well, I wouldn't rule it out.
You turn me upside down.
2. Storm Moves
The Reverend
See the clouds moving down from the mountains,
Ghosts on the breeze.
Hear the sound of a thousand voices
Caught in the trees.
I can't understand why the Lord had to take her from me. 2x
Oh Redemption,
Redemption...
I know that I have been chosen
For such a time as this.
I can be your shelter
I can be your friend
I will be the voice that's calling you
Back to the place you began.
4. Sympathy for the Reverend
The Reverend
I saw your face in the fire
And I won't let it go.
Now anything you require,
I have to make it so.
While the people sleep tonight,
I walk through the valley alone.
There's a demon seed in the sky
I'm not gonna let it grow.
You placed a snake within the garden,
For some reason I can't see
Oh would, that you should let this cup
Now pass away from me. 2x
You placed a snake within the garden
Now we're eating from the tree.
Uncertainty.
Uncertainty.
Now all the clothing in the world can't cover us. 2x
Uncertainty.
No, I won't let it go.
4. Black Blood Rising
Samuel
I caught madness
I caught madness
I heard the conversations
I caught the madness.
And so my mother made a covenant
And I was born in the blackest sin
I was baptized in witches' spit
And I can't get it out of my head.
Oh God, Oh God.
I can feel the madness creepin' up
Into my head.
I can see the black blood seeping out
Of my skin.
I don't know what I did
But I let you in.
It's not what I wanted
Not what I bargained for.
Oh God. Oh god.
There is a darkness growing in my mind,
There is a serpent wrapped around my spine,
I ate from the bread
I drank from the wine
But my teeth are on edge
And it trembles,
It trembles inside.
I heard the conversations
I've got the madness, I've got the madness.
5. Afraid
The Reverend:
There is a way that seems right to a man
Please listen my child and know
It is written, it is written
This is the path that leads the soul to it's destruction
Please listen my child and know
It is written, it is written.
Don't listen to your heart it will deceive you.
The heart is darkness,
Dark above all things.
And you used to think you belonged here
You used to think you should stay
And you used to be afraid to walk away.
Now your afraid to stay.
Lilith:
And I used to think I belonged here
I used to think I should stay
And I used to be afraid to walk away.
Now I afraid to stay.
Samuel
Where have you been?
I've been searching the streets now for days.
Your face, your face,
Yes, your holy, holy face.
I can see a change in you
A change in me
A change, I see
A change that's coming through.2x
I can see the change, change, change, change
It's changing me
It's changing you.2x
Lilith:
The reverend said we cannot wed
You're not the one he says,
And we both know all the signs
And the directions they've been pointin'.
Should we still be trying to close our eyes,
I have been trying so hard to keep my eyes closed.
Can you feel the wind tonight?
The racket and the branches breaking
I'm scared of you, I'm scared of you and me.
The wind is roaring, roaring through the trees.
I'm sorry, Love but I have to leave,
I'm sorry, Love, but we both know I have to go.
I cannot sleep anymore, He's always watching me.
His eyes are never closed,
The Lord, He always knows.
6. Scaffold
Samuel:
There was a sound in the dark
I started freezing.
I heard it coming down the hall,
I stopped breathing.
There was a shaking in the wall
The pictures fell and shattered.
Oh God, it's finally happening.
My god, it's finally happening.
Well the devil's in the wilderness,
Or so I've heard.
Well, I think I'm gonna go and have a word.
Cause I've had my fill with that narrow road.
And the minister's black veil is weighing heavy on my soul.
Young Goodman Brown,
You'll never make love now,
You're scared to death of everyone.
Scared of your own shadow.
When you woke up from your dream.
Saw that things weren't as they seemed.
That should have been your cue.
Well, there's a Shadow in the woods,
They say he's got a book,
Filled with names of lost souls and the like,
Well I'm signing up right on the dotted line.
And you can sign your name right below mine.
Take me to the scaffold,
I want to see the scaffold.
You can put me on display but I ain't ever gonna change.
Take me to the scaffold,
I want to see the scaffold,
Put me to the stocks I'm tired of fighting it
And I've got something to say...
Oh, the children, they should never be afraid.
7. Black Magic Rainfall
Samuel
I lost your fingers our last touch just by the old oak
You walked down the mainstream but ran when you turned the corner.
But still your ghost is ever near,
I see your face in every storefront glass.
Down in the brook by Potter's field
Or in our secret spot behind the old tavern.
I've got an itch where my fingers can't reach into grab it,
I've got a secret, I'm spitting, I'm kicking, I'm cracking.
I want to wipe you from the bricks,
From every person that you've touched or spoken with,
I want to wash out every street that has ever borne the shape of your footprint.
Black magic rainfall,
It ain't gonna stop until I say so.
Let the rain fall,
Until we're clean.
Drown all your sorrows, I'm drowning my sorrows with laughter,
This town is a shipwreck, and I am the face of disaster.
And all the corpses float along,
Their bloated bellies in the moonlight shining,
And I can feel it in my blood,
The taste of everything that I've been fighting.
Black magic rainfall,
It ain't gonna stop until I say so.
Let the rain fall,
Until we're clean.
8. Jailbreak on the Mountain
Samuel:
Villains and murderers and bad ideas,
Get in line and tell me why you're here.
All the bars of your cages are melting into your stripes
You're free to go, but there's gonna be a price.
Exercise your liberty,
You're just the same,
You're just the same as me,
Have you ever felt so free?
Backwards up and down the stairs,
You won't believe just where they go,
It's gonna be the worst kind of show.
It's gonna be a hard night to get through
A hard kind of fight but that's the way it goes.
Do you feel that chill, yeah?
Do you feel it, Lord, because I know I do.
Do you feel it, Baby, 'cause I feel it too.
I feel it yes, I feel it too.
The wind is blowing, let it roar, let roar.
The Battle for Redemption
The Reverend:
There was no hope for the righteous
Not for beast, nor child, nor man
There was no hope for Redemption
When the sky came crumblin' in
I could spread my wings at an eagle's breadth
But they still wouldn't cover this town.
Oh God, you have forsaken us
You have let your people down.
Child of a black conception,
Child of the earth,
You were born of powers dark and ancient
Blasphemous and cursed
I can see your rise like Babylon
I can hear the waters churn,
But from dust your skin was wrapped around you
And to dust it shall return.
Samuel:
Like dark on the face of the waters
Like black in the formless and void,
My spirit moves across the surface,
Moon sliver in my eye.
Moon sliver in my eye.
I am a god in my new creation.
Reverend:
From dust your skin was wrapped around you
And to dust it shall return.
To dust you shall return.
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