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There’s a clearing behind her mother’s house On the other side of Silver Creek We’d drink cheap, cherry vodka there late at night Her dog, Lobo, at our feet Crystal was younger than me, but much tougher With a dark smile on her lips She looked so pretty laughing in my puckered face When I pulled up her skirt a bit Lobo took off She said, “You catch that hound I’m yours” So I ran Through the trees Chasing sounds Deep into the darkness Then I fled Then I fled and took Crystal to her room Turned off all the lights I closed the curtains to the sickle moon Said, “There’s a strange man outside He was out there swatting lighting bugs On his greasy face and body I could just make out two big pale eyes staring Through streaks of glowing green Letras de cancionesHis pig-face grinning mean” Her smile Fell away And she said “Thought I was going crazy I’ve seen him too And I can’t take it anymore I can’t take it Every night I see him in the window Those big pale eyes” I stole a machete Hacked up small animals for practice Even when I found Lobo tied in a knot No one believed us Weeks later I was patrolling the woods Red lights flashing through the branches I dropped the machete Ran to her house And saw two cop cars and an ambulance Lighting bugs glowing in the breeze And I fell to my knees It’s been years now I moved to the city To get lost in the trash Like one of many fruit flies And I found my wife, Claire So full of life, so wild With a smile beyond compare And our first child is Kicking strong inside her But sometimes I swear I look at her face and I see Crystal hiding in there The way her lips pout When she’s brushing her hair I see her everywhere I tried my best to lose her How I got lost in bars spilling into streets Too drunk to dream Can’t dream or I’ll see him choking Crystal with her sheets And grinning mean Now, it seems Like violence is a mist Slowly creeping from the past And I can’t help but feel He’s coming back for me Just last week An old machete was found Lodged in some young cop’s gut Right on our street Where I could hear him suffering And I recalled a possum Still trying to run Though I’d cut its head clean off Same as me, I thought Fleeing home when I knew damn well he’d never stop Because I saw those eyes And tonight As I patrolled the halls Checking all the windows, I saw The green glow of a lightning bug Kissed Claire’s sleeping lips and grabbed my gun Not gonna run From Letras Mania