Hollow Bones

Lyrics

End of the century
Down in the Deep South
A preacher man, religion gone
His God had left the house
He was a gambling man
In the red with the wrong crowd
Desperate to pay his dues
Looking for some way out

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Well you can guess
How the story goes
Murder and suicide
All the way to death row
Nitrogen shakes
At the toll of the bell
Nitrogen shakes
All the way to hell
All the way to hell

Collect on the insurance
He took out on his wife
That’s how he’d clear the debt he owed
She’d pay back with her life
Found two desperados
To execute the plan
Boys from the deepest south
Who didn’t give a damn

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Handed them a cool grand
In the dead of a summer night
Headed for the Sennett House
With murder in mind
Grabbed a poker from the fireplace
Beat her half to death
Stabbed her lying on the floor
Till she had nothing left

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Karma is a bitch from hell
And now she’s come to collect
Writhing on the gurney
As the poison they inject
After a lonely lifetime
The bodies finally still
And that is how the story ends
Death row’s got space to fill

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