Gargoyles on a cemetery road
Dark cars everywhere I go
Stopwatch for the fading afterglow
Cops parked in a vehicle
Far gone from the only family I’ve known
Odd sounds, then the vertigo
Bogged down in the catacombs
Thru the portal home to a mortal role
Packed pumpkin patches with pastel clothes

Scare fools into godforsaken plights
Werewolves circa 1989
Careful not to weave between the lines or I might have to drive
Grateful when the voices do subside
Able ‘til the evening turns to night
May those who are blessed with the sight be blind for just tonight

Graveyards like rows of crops
Caskets packed in to preserve the rot
Massive is the anguish that it’s brought
Active to distract me from my manic thoughts
Pastors acting as the guard
Actors for the oligarch
There’s a holy spark hidden in the dark
Black visions twist in the parking lot

Come home where the specters do reside
Unknown if they’re real or realize
I’ve known there’s a glitch within my mind for at least half my life
Control every impulse to take flight
Untold are the sinful’s final price
I know that I’ve taken all I might
Just give me a sign

Rain down now
Flood runneth over me
If ever God was here, He’s now an ocean of debris
The banshees in my mind, shadows on the walls of time, echo thru a thousand lives
Ever fallin’, fallin’, fallin’ fallin’

Rain down now
Fire cometh unto me
I’m just a conduit for self-inflicted devilry
Conjure the beast within, schizophrenic medium
Exhale and then breathe it in, then again

Doctor got some pills to pop
Offered, assured he would take the lot
Conferred with the intern that it ought
Yes, sir, it’s sure to make the opera stop
Posture like an honest doc
Not sure if he’s bought or not
But I’ve given thought to this mind I’ve got
I prefer madness to tabs & shots

This house has become a living tomb
Without any coffins to peruse
Discount when the porcelain dolls move, as they’re inclined to do
Winds howl like a whispering typhoon
Djinns prowl from the mirrors in my room
Wish how I could quiet all this doom
Oh God I’m begging you

Rain down now
Flood runneth over me
If ever God was here, He’s now an ocean of debris
The ghosts inside my mind, shadows on the walls of time, echo thru a thousand lives
Ever fallin’, fallin’, fallin’ fallin’

Rain down now
Fire cometh unto me
I’m just a conduit for self-inflicted devilry
Conjure the beast within, schizophrenic medium
Exhale and then breathe it in, then again
Rain down now
Rain down now, wash over me

Wait
I thought these jackals in my eyes
Had put these shackles in my mind
But it was I who failed to shine

Rain down now
Rain down now
Rain down now
Wash over me