Verse One (Ethel Cain): There’s a hole in the wall where you keep your head Lost it one too many times Say your mama’s funeral’s next Sunday What’d your daddy go and do now? No matter just how hard they cry, a dog is a dog is a dog is a dog is a dog and they still get hungry And they look hungry So once you’re dead, who’ll be there to let them out Interlude (Ethel Cain): You don’t need me like you think you do And I can’t pull you through You just need to feel like someone wants you And I promise you, they do Verse Two (Ethel Cain): You are young, you are young, you’re too young, and you cry til you’re soaking wet You're not your father but you wear his clothes to bed Going over something he said All American No good, worn through, and on fire And they’ll chew holes in whatever’s left Til there’s nothing left Chorus (Ethel Cain): You’ve tasted love and it tasted sweet You drank the blood and bit the meat If you hold it and it cries You should let it go I’m trying hard so baby please Don’t sink in me with your dog teeth Please, I’m already on my knees (In God’s country) Verse Three (Ethel Cain): It was just a thursday And it wasn’t right for you So we planned a car chase, down the highway Say goodbye when it hit 122 I’d write the note, you’d leave a Pack of your favorite smokes And we’d take the by-ways to South Alabama and run those great big Hills to the great big blue Verse Four (Ethel Cain): You sound like you’re underwater when You talk to me Little preacher’s daughter lying To her father About where she’s going every evening Kissing through the screen door on The back porch causе he Screams Lord help mе when he Sees you touching me South Alabama is looking better every week Chorus (Ethel Cain): You’ve tasted love and it tasted sweet You drank the blood and bit the meat If you hold it and it cries You should let it go I’m trying hard so baby please Don’t sink in me with your dog teeth Please, I’m already on my knees (In God’s country) Verse Five (Ethel Cain): the road is longer than it is hard with no one to guide you and no one to hold no best foot forward to sway the odds just a voice inside you and a stone to throw Verse Six (Ethel Cain): could you be someone else if someone else is what i need but i shouldn’t ask that of you when you’re old you’ll understand but we’re hurting now so what are we to do til then cradling pictures of you Verse Seven (Ethel Cain): it was a highway to nowhere, and we rode it cold car with no gas and we chose it soft bodies playing in the street our kids will grow up with half as much trying to build something out of dust finding out too late what they need Verse Eight (Ethel Cain): You smell like gasoline Trailing the death of me when you come home Then you’re gone Stained like the memories Stuffed under the car seat Behind me I’m not coming back I’m not coming back again You ruined all of that I always told you that Your white horse can’t hold your hand So it passed you running again and again Verse Nine (Wicca Phase Springs Eternal): Drive the pathway through the pines And the moors of mystery Welcome conflict and let crisis come and shake the ground beneath And the family secret hiding In the farmhouse down the street Rushes open door on your front porch And shadows me Taken and entirely I embraced the bonny beast Over hills and highlands we rode hard the passing peaks Danger liked the virgin wife beside me she would sleep Cherry was her dad’s truck that she crashed at seventeen I kneel before what temper broke the branches on the beach And those thrilling highs and southern nights are always out of reach Pre-Chorus (Wicca Phase Springs Eternal): I learned a lesson I need to pray and hard Final hours Take care of me God Chorus (Ethel Cain & Wicca Phase Springs Eternal): You’ve tasted love and it tasted sweet You drank the blood and bit the meat If you hold it and it cries, you should let it go I'm trying hard so baby please Don’t sink in me with your dog teeth Please, I’m already on my knees (In God’s country) Bridge (Ethel Cain & Wicca Phase Springs Eternal): Don’t sink in me with your dog teeth Don’t sink in me with your dog teeth Taken and entirely I embraced the bonny beast Over hills and highlands we rode hard the passing peaks Danger liked the virgin wife beside me she would sleep Cherry was her dad’s truck that she crashed at seventeen I kneel before what temper broke the branches on the beach And those thrilling highs and southern nights are always Always Chorus (Ethel Cain & Wicca Phase Springs Eternal): you’ve tasted love and it tasted sweet you drank the blood and bit the meat you hold it, you hold it, but you’ll never know you close your eyes and cry to me don’t sink in me with your dog teeth we’re better off if you let go in god’s country in god’s country Outro (Ethel Cain): if it was harder then it will be better now for i am here and changed i couldn’t tell you how there before the grace of god go i laughing to myself forgetting what about
