[Intro: Spoken Word]
You're standing a long time on the shore
You try to chase away your thoughts
You want to feel the land you're looking for
You want to move, but you lost the gall
You want to pray, but you forgot the words
You lost the land you're looking for
But the first steps are in your heart
Some answers come from tears and from the dark
And all the signs are in the heart
Sometimes you must close your eyes
To see
Who you are

My church is black
My Christ is cold
My cross is pale
All hope is gone

My church is black

My church is black
My Christ is cold
My cross is pale
Hell is my home

Hell is my home

My church is black

My church is black
My blood runs cold
The sun don't shine for me no more

For me no more

Black is the moon
Cold is the sun
Sing hallelujah
No kingdom come

No kingdom come

My church is black
My church is black

My church is black

My church is black
My church is black
My church is black
				

Strangled words in the dim light
Feelings fall and turn to ice
Where the amber heals the desolation
Of the wound deep in you tonight

This is a nightride with stones in your pocket
This is a nightride to your half-life
This is a nightride down to your railroad
And you've never felt so cold

You ruled the world for a moment
Thought you were in the kingdom of love
You were fooled by your own fantasies
And she kicked you in the balls

This is a nightride to burn your poetry
This is a nightride to smash up your guitar
This is a nightride down to your graveyard
To see who you really are

This is a nightride with your monkey
This is a nightride with the Devil on your case
This is a nightride to your nightmares
It's time to cut to the chase

This is a nightride with stones in your pocket
This is a nightride to your half-life
This is a nightride down to your railroad
And you never felt so cold
				

I'm on the road
I been here so long
Just like one of them stars in the black sky

I'm on the road
I've drunk from skulls
I'm on the road
I've covered myself in bones

And I've kissed life
And I've embraced Death
I've ridden love, love
I've ridden love to its very last breath

I'm on the road (he's on the road)
And I've seen the light
I'm on the road (he's on the road)
Many souls have passed me by
I felt the wonder, the wonder, the wonder
Been washed up by the tide
I've ridden love, love
I've ridden love over to the other side

(I'm on the road) (x4)

I've killed the gods
The spirit has entered within me
And all my love, oh my love
Is where I end and where I begin

I'm on the road

And you gotta take it down to the wire
There's no mercy in this eternal fire
				

[Verse 1]
I am looking for compassion
I ain't come to raise the dead
I am much for you, so offer
Just a cut off teasing of pain

I ain't coming for forgiveness
I'm not paying for my sins
I betrayed you my sweet Jesus
I have chosen hell on Earth

[Chorus]
I will get away with murder
I will get away with crime
It's the innocence I reign
I won't stop until I'm done

[Verse 2]
I ain't come here for a coffee
I am looking for no fun
Don't expect me to be sober
Well you know I'm running wild

I don't wear no crown of thorns
Well you know I never pray
I won't offer no salvation
I was born to raise some Hell

[Chorus]
I will get away with murder
I will get away with crime
It's the innocence I reign
I won't stop until I'm done

[Verse 3]
In the garden, met my old friend
He's the one with many names
You have always been like brother
Good to have you back again

Now I wear my graveyard suit
And I smoke the black cigars
I sing 'Hosanna, Hosanna'
At the funeral of God

[Chorus]
I will get away with murder
I will get away with crime
It's the innocence I reign
I won't stop until I'm done

[Bridge]
We ain't coming for forgiveness
We're not paying for our sins
We betrayed you our sweet Jesus
We have chosen hell on Earth
				

My mother was a witch
My father the moon
I was only five
When I met my doom
I had no future
I had no past
Just living for the moment
I am the first and I'm the last

I cannot buy redemption
Riding down this perdition road
I have paved my way to hell
Better the devil I know

I made an offer to the man
Playing guitar by the road
I fell for the blues he played
And Robert Johnson was his name
Oh preacher tell me please
If there's any hope for me
To turn profound pain
Into burning divine flame

I cannot buy redemption
Riding down this perdition road
I have paved my way to hell
Better the devil I know

Better the devil I know

Better the devil I know
Better the devil I know
Better the devil I know
				

I dreamt you were a siren
And you sang your strange songs to me
I felt a strange kind of magick
And dived into your deep black sea

She said, she said come
Come to me

I dreamt you were a vampire
You sank your sharp teeth into me
You wanted to be my one true love
For all of eternity

She said, she said come
Come to me
Come to me

She said, she said
Come to me

Then I dreamt you were my lover
And I lay between your silky legs
You held my head so tightly
I prayed that this moment would never end

She said, she said
Come to me
She said, she said
Come to me
Come to me

She said, she said
Come to me
				

[Verse 1]
If I come to you
Will you be the one for me?
If I come to you
Will you be the one who bleeds?
If I call your name
If I call your name
Will you always follow me?

[Verse 2]
If I walk the waters
Would you take the risk and trust me?
If I turn water into wine
Would you be my girl, would you cross that line?
If I call your name
If I call your name
Will you always follow me?

[Chorus]
Lover, lover, lover, lover

If I call your name, if I call your name, will you always follow me?

[Verse 3]
If I come to you
Will you be the one for me?
If I fall on my knees,
Would you grab a brick, throw a stone at me?
If I call your name
If I call your name
Will you always follow me?
				

Take me down to the Morrison Hotel
I will follow the signs of blood on the sand
Let me hear the devil's church bells
Let me drink from his well
I want you to fall for me on the day

Take me down to the Heartbreak Hotel
I will keep my shotgun by my side
Let's witness all dramas and lies
Show me how the true love is born
Let me see how it withers and dies

Take me down to Chelsea Hotel
I'm ready for the outsider's ride
Sid and Nancy are going blind
All I need is sex, murder, and art
I'm dancing with Warhol's muses tonight

At the end of the day
There is no one to blame
Love and death, it's all the same
				

[Verse 1]
One day these boots will leave this town
One day the mountains will come crashing down
One day will be the longest night
One day those wings will tire in flight

[Chorus]
Oh my lord, oh my lord
It's death I can't afford

[Verse 2]
One day there'll be nowhere to go
One day that river will burst and overflow
One day the wind will tame the flame
One day that's never coming back again

[Chorus]
Oh my lord, oh my lord
It's death I can't afford

[Verse 3]
One day there'll be nothing left to do
One day the rainbow will break on through
One day, every day I'll think of you
One day I'll say goodbye, ain't that true

[Chorus]
Oh my lord, oh my lord
It's death I can't afford

[Verse 4]
One day I'll come back for you
One day you'll feel the chill
One day you and I will be the same
One day we'll fall together as the rain

[Chorus]
Oh my lord (6x)
It's death I can't ignore
				

I can hear your lamentations
You been bad to the whiskey again
She called me on the wind
Gimme the medicine for my pain
She sees the dreams of the dying
She sees the nightmares of those who live
My sweet shaman has got the blues
She said you gotta dig, dig, dig

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

She got a black pearl in her pussy
And it'll be there 'til the day she dies
Then I'll stick it in her mouth, honey
And spit on her fakin' eyes
I'm comin' to you my shaman
To stoke your fire today
So get cookin' that soup under a full moon
And we'll drive those blues away

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
				

I met her down by the roadside
Beneath the blazing sun
She said "where you goin' to?"
I said "I'm going west pretty lady"
She gave me an evil smile
And said "I'm kinda going there too"

Oh oh oh
She's a voodoo queen

We brought down the sky
We broke into heaven
We did everything we shouldn't do
So many crazy nights under the full moon
And I fell in love with her sweet tattoo

Oh oh oh
She's a voodoo queen
Oh oh oh
She's a voodoo queen

Oh oh oh
She's a voodoo queen
Oh oh oh
She's a voodoo queen
Oh oh oh
She's a voodoo queen
				

Well I'm washing down your naked body
Counting your wounds and your scars
See the crazy look on your face
As you light up your cigar

Your leather boots were made for walkin'
And to kick the hell out of your face
You say I gotta wait for your loving
'Cause we gotta get outta this place

We gotta get outta this place

The way you kill is like a wild dog
And it sets your body on fire
I see you girl getting a taste
But we gotta get outta this place

Gotta get outta this place

Oh yeah

Your blouse too tight, your skirt way up high
Here comes another fool for a ride
He's gonna wake up the other side of hell
'Cause we gotta get outta this place
				

Mother, I'm leaving
Mother, I'm gone
It seems like in this world there ain't much loving anymore

Mama, I'm leaving
Mama, I'm gone
I ain't looking for redemption like a dog without a bone

Ooh, there ain't much loving anymore (x4)

Mother, I'm leaving
Mama, I'm gone
I must find a place to rest my spirit where I can see it mourn

Mama, I'm leaving
Mama, I'm gone
Nothing can fix my broken soul so I hit an empty road

Ooh, there ain't much loving anymore (x4)

Ooh, there ain't much loving anymore (x4)

Father, I'm leaving
Father, I'm gone
There's a billion years I've traveled but I finally found my home

I'm gonna sing out my darkness
Sing about my war
I will spread the gospel, there ain't much loving anymore

Ooh, there ain't much loving anymore (x4)