BOONDOX LYRICS - They Pray With Snakes

"They Pray With Snakes"



[Verse 1]

In the belly of the beast the place that's miles away

In a deep southern town where the devil comes to pray

A choir sings with their eyes sewn shut

By a stream the children play in water flowin with blood

The pastor stands on his pulpit while preachin of Hell

On the hilltop church with demons ringing the bell

They toll twice for the missing and the recently departed

In the pews the congregation sits a 100 days rotted

Suffering is all around us, stench of death in the air

Nobody seems to notice or nobody seems to care

Its just an everyday life and a normal routine

People walkin' right by but never notice the screams

A backwards philosophy passed down through the ages

Generation of murder written down in these pages

Of a book overlooked and forgotten in history

A place where the secret is surrounded by mystery



[Chorus]

I can hear the screaming in the forest at night

They pray with snakes and they poisons my mind

I can hear the screaming through the forest at night

They pray with snakes and they poisons my mind



[Verse 2:]

Was it a curse or a sickness that raced in the minds

Of these sac-religious hillbillies raised with the swine

No remorse in the souls and their heart's pitched black

Thirsty for the blood hound murdered contact

Feasting on the brain of the ones they call sinners'

Cousin Cletus in the kitchen carving torsos for dinner

In the barn, on the meat-hooks, bodies are hanging

In the cellar by a chain more bodies are swingin'

And in the field like a scene from an old parkin lot

Abandoned for so many years, cars left to rot

And buried in the garden in a hole dug deep

All the bones and the belongings all piled in a heap

Ungodly sounds of torture echo through the trees

The screams of suffering still blowin in the breeze

Not on any map, undiscovered, never surveyed

Secrets of a small town kept locked away



[Chorus repeated 'till end]