La Santa Muerte
Recibe su guadaña
Que usa para cortar
El hilo de la vida
Anni Obsidian rode into the canyon
Just her and her stallion and her black obsidian blade
A lone rider, she harbours no mercy
Delivering curses with vengeance her only take
Hot smoke put a fire in her eyes
Like the taste of blood to the wolves who ride in her wake
Ride on
La Santa Muerte
Recibe la balanza de la justicia
Que utiliza para devolve el equilibrio
Y la tranquilidad al mundo
A ghost in the starlight
Her phantom stallion rode forthright
His rider had her sights on the men with the lives to pay
Four riders bivouacked and tired
From all that transpired over seven bloody days
Like a dance between lovers
She painted the stars with their blood
With her shining obsidian blade
The letter arrived on the morning of the third day
The heat was strong
And not much moved outside but he knew
It was time to be moving on
He looked at his face in the mirror
He spit as he took up his pistol and chain
He cursed when the sun hit him hard in the eyes
On his final day
Kick my boots 'cross the water
I’ll be eating crow no more
This time I’ve got a bone of contention to
Serve to the choking dogs
The dust rose high from the desert
A gust of wind carried voices unknown
And a letter burned in the pocket
Of a ghost who was heading home
This town takes blood from the haunted
A connoisseur of damned and desperate souls
The gavel falls when a man locks eyes
With a wary foe
Kick my boots 'cross the water
I’ll be eating crow no more
This time I’ve got a bone of contention to
Serve to the choking dogs
One more time cross the water
I’ll be eating crow no more
This time I’ve got a bone of contention to
Serve to the choking dogs
Put your cards on the table my son
Take a coal from the fire
Leave a gift for your lover and get some sleep
Tomorrows journey will surely tire
You wanted to know what waits for you in the sand
Well drink from my heart and surely you'll come to understand
That the garden of fire that burns inside your bones
Turns to smoke and ash fixin' to carry you home
And the desert will thirst for you no more
Those hands that you carry my son
It's no burden to share
You drew from the wellspring of someone else
Laid them low and left them bare
You wanted to know what waits for you in the ground
Well I'm sure you'll find out when tomorrow's sun comes back around
One day you're a child, the next day you're cursed and cold
Looking for shelter where the valleys fold
The devil's shoulder is where you've rest your head
While you hide away and reconcile the dead
Well the porch light burned til morning came
By noon the can was dry
The screen door moaned a saddened tune
While the taste of lightning filled the sky
No quarter counts the skulls of ceremonies lost and dead
The preacher pockets his blessings and
Rides to where the sky turns a bloody red
Three empty skins of holy water
And three more days to go
Gotta make it to that mountain road
But here before the fire
I'm breathing coal and spitting sand
And losing sight of the hand that could not save me
A lifetime of washing sins
In a river of stone and clay
Well the sins piled high and promised that I would rue the day
I swore an allegiance to a saviour from a book of man
But here in my final days
There is no god just sky and sand
And still no sign of water
And not much time to go
Gotta make it to that mountain road
But here in the arroyo
I'm breathing sun and spitting sand
And putting sight on the mountain that just might save me
I see it all so clearly now
The water burns my blistered skin
A raindrop scores my weary brow
There are no gods
Just fools who walk this world of pain
Drink my blood and take my bones
Just let that rain come pouring down
Dirty water keeps my head afloat
All the vast of outer space around my throat
Gone away for thirty days now I don't know
How to stand
Some violent streak in town and here I am
Searching darkened waters with two busted hands
Dream of falling birds who never reach the sand
So alone
Ah to feel that sunshine glow
Pelt me in the face with sand when the warm wind blows
Hell, put me back into the thorns
I just want to hear that sound
The victory horn
But here I am
Dirty water keeps my head afloat
Whispers through the wall are all I know
Bloody screams and dirty rain are all that flow
From Above
Ah, to feel that sunshine one more time
To feel the sand and wind blowing in my eyes
To hear the flying wings of the singing dove
Take me home to my sweet angel
Sweet angel love
You want to call me a stranger
And you might try to call me a fool just the same
But your eyes know the danger
And your lips they quiver to the sound of my name
Say it softly
And don't let that word stray too far from your tongue
You don't know who's listening
And this little war we've got going on
It's only just begun
But I can help you
Salvation is just a handshake away
And if you hear me out
It's not like you've got much of a choice anyway
For thirty years in the night time
I've heard you crying out
You were praying for that crimson rain
Well here I am in your doorway this evening
I'm here to take what's mine
To take your soul
To make my claim
So you've got to come with me
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