Take an eye for an eye
Take a tooth for a tooth
Just like they say in the Bible

Never leave a trace or forget a face
Of any man at the table
When the moon is a cold chiseled dagger

Sharp enough to draw blood from a stone
He rides through your dreams on a coach
And horses and the fence posts

In the midnight look like bones

Well they've stopped trying to hold him

With mortar, stone and chain
He broke out of every prison
Boots mount the staircase

The door is flung back open
He's not there for he has risen
He's not there for he has risen


Well he once killed a man with a guitar string
He's been seen at the table with kings

Well he once saved a baby from drowning
There are those who say beneath his coat there are wings
Some say they fear him

Others admire him
Because he steals his promise
One look in his eye

Everyone denies
Ever having met him
Ever having met him


He can turn himself into a stranger
Wel lthey broke a lot of canes on his hide

He was born away in a cornfield
A fever beats in his head like a drum inside
Some say they fear him

Others admire him
Because he steals his promise
One look in his eye

Everyone denies
Ever having met him
Ever having met him