Hellhounds Of Alcatraz

You had better swim like you ain’t never swum before

Unless you wanna end up lying on the ocean floor

The channel is so windy and the water is so wide

You paddle toward the city under cover of the night

The hurricane’s in motion as you’re jumpin’ off the jail

The Hellhounds of Alcatraz are hot on your tail

They’ll follow you through North Beach and way down to Mexico

You’re never out of reach and it don’t matter where you go

Down The Embarcadero they are following their prey

The strait is getting narrow between you and Judgment Day

So if you ever turn around you know what to expect

The Hellhounds of Alcatraz are dogging all your steps

And the mission bells are ringin’ out upon the open sea

And the angels are a-singin’, but they’ll never set you free

A storm, it is a-comin’ like doomsday coming down

Their paws, they are a-drummin’ like a tremor through the ground

They’re raging up from under, following no common law

Like Wicked bolts of thunder with the justice of their jaw

Like locomotive lightning riding on the howling wind

The Hellhounds of Alcatraz relieve you of your sin

And the mission bells are ringin’ out upon the open sea

And the angels are a-singin’, but they’ll never set you free

The skies above will darken as you tread into the night

You already here ‘em barking, pretty soon you’ll feel ‘em bite

You hear a deathly rumblin’ as you see the moon eclipsed

San Francisco Bay is nothing but the River Styx

You’re a refugee to heaven but you can’t get off the ground

The Hellhounds of Alcatraz are you dragging you back down