hymnal of decay Lyrics

Won't you look here, listen now

As the apple's falling next to the tree

Won't you sit and hear the sound

Of my father's sins following me

Following me, following me

Following me down

Swallowing me, swallowing me

Just like gravity

Won't you touch me, I'm reaching out

From underneath these dying leaves

Can't you taste the bitter shroud

I've been wearing since I turned 18

Smothering me, it's smothering me

Hanging in this vapor cloud

Falling to the sea, down to the sea

My daddy and me

Can't you read my letters that I wrote

With a shaky hand and a borrowed pen

And a heartache in my throat

Won't you stop at my cross beside the interstate

Where I yelled my curses to the moon

And all she said was

You are your father, you are your mother

And there will never be another

Who discovers the depths you do

You're going down beneath the ocean

Without a sound

No one else around

Down like gravity, down to the sea

Down with your father and your sisters

And your brothers and your mother

And all the others, all down to the sea

Where the apple fell right off the tree

Won't you look here, hear me howl

Like a beast at the moon

Nothing left but wax and feathers

In what used to be a little girl's room

The sins of the father caught her much too soon