The Widow's Bane - Ancestral Ray текст песни

Sweet baby boy,
Rattlesnake in his hand,
Grinnin' from the bottom
Of the cradle I stand
Like a proud father would
Who slipped into fatherhood like a trance.
If a proud father could
He would give his boy a fighting chance.

I'm feelin' scared.
I can't remember what for.
I think there's somethin' dark
Moving under the floor.
Yeah my boy's rattle shakes
And he's hungry for more
But my bones were set broken __
So I can't open the door.

I'm beggin' him, "Please son, behave.
I'm doin' all I can to save
All our ancestors gave.
Can't you hear them callin' you from the grave?
Can't you hear them callin' you from the grave?
Can't you hear them callin' you from . . .?"

Tears are wellin' up
Like tar in his eyes.
My blood is runnin' thick
As the fog outside.
There's a ghost in the corner--
She's tellin' me to rockabye.
Yeah my boy's eyes are red
And now Daddy's goin' in style.

I'm beggin' him, "Please son, behave.
I'm doin' all I can to save
All our ancestors gave.
Can't you hear them callin' you from the grave?
Can't you hear them callin' you from the grave?
Can't you hear them callin' you from . . .?"

I recall the crooked sound
Of a music box by my bed
And the demons in my daddy's eyes
That his crooked smile hid.
I could see the snakes
Movin' underneath his skin.
I guess I was Faust then but
Now I am him--but now I'm . . .

Oh I wade through the whispers
Of my boys forked tongue.
There's a chill in the wind
Makin' the spiders run.
There's a pulse like a silent space
After you cock a gun
And I'm thinking to myself,
My God, What have I done?

I'm beggin' him, "Please son, behave.
I'm doin' all I can to save
All our ancestors gave.
Can't you hear them callin' you from the grave?
Can't you hear them callin' you from the grave?
Can't you hear them callin' you from . . .?"

I jump for the door
As the crib starts to crack
And I feel his claws
Fall across my back.
I catch a glimpse of myself in his eyes
And then he opens his mouth
And my baby's cry
Echoes from my grandaddy's shack.

I ask him, "Son, do you think that your brave
To cast out all that I gave?
You can't kill the snakes--no.
Can't you hear them callin' you from the grave?
Yeah we're your ancestral Ray. We're your ancestral Ray."