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

Chorus:

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