Shayfer James - hauntedthingslyrics

Haunted Things
Lyrics © 2015 Shayfer James

1. FILTHY HABIT

Hope is not lost

It is patiently waiting for us

So take off that black dress

And we'll disappear

Love is not kind

It's a dirty little trick of the mind

My beautiful weakness

I'm happy you're here

Be my filthy habit, love

Be my danger and my drug

We may find some sleep tonight

If you'll be my filthy habit love

Do as you please

Baby make an example of me

Go until broken, and hungry for more

Be what I need

Lady, teach a machine how to bleed

Dismantle me, deadly

Make me a storm

Be my filthy habit, love

Be my danger and my drug

We may find some sleep tonight

If you'll be my filthy habit love

I'm howling at the moon for you

It's so lonely, so lonely here

Be my filthy habit, love

Be my danger and my drug

We may find some sleep tonight

If you'll be my filthy habit love

So take off that black dress

And we'll disappear

2. DEVIL THROW ROSES

Oh we died on every corner

In the days before the flood

And we waded in the water

Frozen fingers dipped in mud

I wrote letters on the back

of every napkin I could burn

and you left with no intention of return

Oh, we danced down the stairs into hell

And the Devil, he threw roses

One day I will see you again

And the Devil will throw roses

Now a ghost of good intention

Can behave the way it pleases

So I watched you in the mirror

While you prayed on rusted knees

I carved letters in the top

of every table I could burn

And I left with no intention of return

Oh, we danced down the stairs into hell

And the Devil, he threw roses

One day I will see you again

And the Devil will throw roses

He'll sing a joyful noise

The Devil and the joyful noise

Oh, we danced down the stairs into hell

And the Devil, he threw roses

One day I will see you again

And the Devil will throw roses

3. TINY GODS

My crooked back

was built for teeth and claws

The bloody wrath

of Tiny Gods

Tear at me, tear at me

Until I'm tame

This is what I was manufactured for

The dirt, the dark, the art of war

Punish me, punish me, until I'm saved

The night is mine, mine, mine

And I will worship as I please

Guide me from this hell of hope

and bind me with your holy rope

Look at me, look at me

I'm nearly there

Cut me with your vicious tongue

Make me taste what I've become

The violence, the violence

The perfect prayer

The night is mine, mine, mine

And I will worship as I please

I will worship as I please

4. CARNIVAL IN HARLEM

There's a Carnival in Harlem

Where my lady reads her gospel

From a balcony of bones

And I'm on my way to see her

For as long as I'm without here

There will be no such thing as home

Certainly, I agree this feels right

and your invitation tempts me so

Normally, a former me would stay the night

Oh, but there is somewhere I must go

There's a Carnival in Harlem

Where my lady reads her gospel

From a balcony of bones

And I'm on my way to see her

For as long as I'm without here

There will be no such thing as home

Lately I've been half alive and wounded

Ravaged by the wolves and left for dead

Oh, it's true I really hate to do this

But there is somewhere I must go instead

There's a Carnival in Harlem

Where my lady reads her gospel

From a balcony of bones

And I'm on my way to see her

For as long as I'm without here

There will be no such thing as home

She believes in Haunted Things

And tells me I'm a fascinating liar

We believe in Haunted Things

I tell you we're a building on fire

There's a Carnival in Harlem

Where my lady reads her gospel

From a balcony of bones

And I'm on my way to see her

For as long as I'm without here

There will be no such thing as home

5. FOR WOLVES

You are the reason

There isn't religion For Wolves

I haven't been sleeping

I still have this scar on my ribs

Oh they cut the trees down

On the corner where we kissed

And every girl I meet

has got a tattoo on her wrist

You are the reason

November will never be fine

I haven't been sober

for more than a day at time

I keep my company seldom and strange

they wake up cold beside me

In the shadow of your name

You are the reason

There isn't religion For Wolves

You are the reason

There isn't religion

For wolves

6. CHARLIE, MY GIRL

Gonna move to the mountains

And grow my hair long

Goodbye, Charlie my girl

Gonna sleep by the lakeside

And speak with the stars

Goodbye, Charlie my girl

Gonna fill up the bathtub

And write you a song

Goodbye, Charlie my girl

I hope that you're happy

Wherever you are

Goodbye, Charlie my girl

I know there's a lady

That you need to be

Goodbye, Charlie my girl

But come find me, kid

When you're ready for me

Goodbye, Charlie my girl

See the days are too long

And the nights are too rough

Goodbye, Charlie my girl

And I can't keep believing

I'm not good enough

Goodbye, Charlie

Gonna move to the mountains

And grow my hair long

Goodbye, Charlie my girl