Harley Poe – Pagan Holiday (Guitar)

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Black cats

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Flapping bats

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Paint your faces green

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'cause it's Halloween

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Goblins, spooks, and vampires too

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Werewolves come to chew on you

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The jack-o-lanterns start to grin

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So let the tricks and treats begin

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On Halloween

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Halloween

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It's Halloween

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Halloween

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Fires crackle while I hold you tight

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The witches cackle as they fly tonight

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The devils all come out to play

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And frighten children till night is day

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Now let's go visit the haunted grave

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Take my hand, we must be brave

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And afterwards we'll get our fortunes read

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But when the sun comes up we'll both be dead

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Until next Halloween

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Halloween

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It's Halloween

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Halloween

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The sky is gray. The leaves are falling on the ground

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And old man winter's comin' round

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One festive night and then it's gone without a sound

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But death follows me around

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I don't know

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if I can take another year

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It's so cold

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And I know my faith is dying here

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You tease me

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With what I know I'll never reach

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I pray thee

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But I won't cry I won't beseech

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I'm rolling up in my cocoon

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I'm changing with the fullness of the moon

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Don't take away

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The only love I know

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My sacrifice

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If I ever want to glow

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So I can't win

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You're making me choose

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Between my love and my sin

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And I thought I was an angel

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But I was wrong

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I'm with the others

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And I've been here all along

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I'm made in your blood?

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Do I fly in the storm

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Or do I wallow in the mud?

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'Cause I've been lost for years

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But I'm not coming back

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The guilt suffocates me and

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turns my soul black

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So don't blame the Devil

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For the shit that you've done

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You've made this mess

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And you're just having fun

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With those who are able to see

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She was a pretty girl a treasure to him.

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She was the purpose of his life.

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And when they came they took his flower from him.

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Those wicked men they killed his wife.

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It was on Halloween when they found their way in.

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He wasn't home, they were aware.

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She prayed for death as they indulged their sin.

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When he returned he found her there.

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So now's your chance, it may not be right.

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Do you run and tell or do you stay and fight?

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Rage fills your mind; you were a man without sin.

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It's two against one; you'll never win.

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But you just can't care.

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There's blood everywhere.

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It was a cold night when you let yourself in.

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They both were armed, you did not care.

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And one by one your torment seized each culprit.

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Police found no bodies anywhere.

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There was no mercy shown when they broke into your home

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And ravished your lovely wife before taking her life.

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There's a beast in all who dwell on this Earth that is our hell.

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Suppress it if you can, but it's inside every man.

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Did you feel no remorse when you disciplined with force?

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Was it justice from above?

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Did you punish them with love?

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Or was it cold hard revenge?

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Did you earn your way to Hell?

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Will God forgive your sin?

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Well that depends on who you tell.

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There was blood everywhere, but you just could not care.