I don’t sleep well at night, I toss and I turn
My hands tremble from the black magic I have learned
I left her for dead on the road to India
The crowd were violent it was mass hysteria
If you overthrew a king, if sold your soul
Come with me, through the night past the mountain of gold
The streets are paved, the sky is cracked, the moon is alive
If we make through night, cross the range, theres redemption on the other side
Shes a bird, she witch, shes a howling wandering soul
Shes perfect , from head to toe
If she made it out, impossible, then shes coming for me
I’ll Hide here in forest beneath the cover of the trees
The trees know the truth, they’ve been here for thousands of years
If she sang out to you in the night, the wiser man would cut off his ears
She moves with mist, her breath is sweet as the vine
For one brief moment she was completely mine
And I was her’s and we were a storm
The thunder shook the ground and the sky was torn
A man from the west who came from the city in the north
With his pen and his book and the promise of his word
Wrote down the story, with elegant poetry and pros
Each line better then the line before
He left the country empty , broken and alone
He died in the dry desert searching for his home
And the painter from Rome with a renaissance brush
With His religion, his virgin his red velvet church
He painted for months and months and months and pulled out his hair
He put all of himself in the painting, and he’s still there
The painting hangs on the wall of a tavern not a hundred miles from here
Staring down on lonesome drunks who drown their sorrow in whiskey and beer
Tell us the story paint us the picture and listen closely to the songs
If youre not at home , then I think its best that you’re moving on
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