Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Legend of Everett Sykes, artist - Ghoultown. Album song The Unforgotten: Rare & Un-Released, in the genre Рок-н-ролл
Date of issue: 09.04.2012
Record label: Angry Planet
Song language: English
The Legend of Everett Sykes |
In the flatlands of texas where the dust swirls like devils |
There’s a town with a curse where the river runs dry |
They call it hallow’s end on a faded map |
And that’s where it all began |
They say he was a soldier turned preacher in a storm |
The wind and rain beat down while anger took its form |
At the back of the house where the fields grew of corn |
They say he killed his sister whose son was stillborn |
Listen to the rattle that comes with the night |
When you see the shadows fading you better pray for the light |
Listen to the crackle when the flames burn too long |
Everything you covet has a heavy price |
So says the legend of everett sykes |
To cleanse himself of sin he turned to brimstone and fire |
A confederate of angels overcome with desire |
And people that knew him said that when he spoke of hell |
You could almost see a sickening light inside his mortal shell |
Even his wife he burned in the living flesh |
Cuz a witches' tongue can rattle with things best left dead |
So every night he prayed at a black and bottomless hole |
Where lucifer was cast on his one way trip below |
Paying a penance for the things that he’d done |
Cuz down the hole he cast the severed head of his own son |