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The Curse of Old Shawnee

by Belle's Wake

on Riot Sessions (2008)

Where the river meets the sea
And under creeping moss
A city sleeps upon its dead
Cursed by love and loss
Though time forgot
A few songs still remain
And in the night
You can still hear the old band play

Dead asleep alone tonight
In melody consumed
A song to wake the devils heart
The whisperings of doom
Fell voices rise
In my head their thoughts resound
Trembling
Gathering
Underground

Baby please come back to me
I know not what I do
Forgive me please, apologies
Are all I've left of you
Your fading cries
How they cut me to the bone
Petrified
My heart is stone

A city that sleeps upon its dead
Will find no rest in it's bed
Of cobblestone and genteel lies
Bones will rise and take back the night

And now at last I found the way
The secret of their call
Their mystery revealed to me
This forsaken town must fall
Then from the ground
These phantoms fill the skies
A reckoning
Of day and night

A city that sleeps upon its dead
Will find no rest in it's bed
Of cobblestone and genteel lies
Bones will rise and take back
These haunted streets
Of Old Shawnee
Am I just one of your ghosts
But my love
Is not near enough
To let me rise
So say goodbye
I'm home

See line woman she got
Evil on her mind
Howling all through the night
And we're so cold

See line woman she got
Evil on her mind
Howling all through the night
And we're so cold

See line woman
Dressed in red
I saw her a'walkin
But she was dead

See line woman
Watchin me
She the curse of the
Low country

I was born in the sunshine
And I will lay down in the dark
The curse of man is to remain
Forever as you are

Lost on these haunted streets
Of Old Shawnee
Am I just one of your ghosts
But my love
Is not near enough
To let me rise
So say goodbye
I'm home