Name: Taking Up Serpents
Duration: P00H04M25S
Description: 12” (45RPM) vinyl version available January 2012

Taking Up Serpents

from The Grim And Crooked Ride by Sonorous Gale

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12” (45RPM) vinyl version available January 2012

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A Small Wooden Church
Just Outside of Town
About to Burst
As they Clap and they Sing And they Shake Until they Fall to the Ground
A Tall White-Haired Man
Lifts a Jar of Turpentine
Under Lantern Light
The Liquid does Sparkle Like Water Yet to Wine
A Salvation Cocktail
He Drinks Down Every Drop Then Proclaims That
If there were a Danger The Lord would show to stop”

They all Stand Up
Keen to Sing their Faith
Each Chanting Praise
To the One who is Touched With the Courage
To Stand and Say...

Show! Your! Self! Or Strike Me Dead

A Small Wooden Church
Just Outside of Town
About to Burst
As they Clap and they Sing And they Shake
Until they Fall to the Ground
A Tall White-Haired Man
Lifts Three Copperheads
Around his Withered Hand
They Slink and they Slide And they Braid Just Like Threads
A living Rosery
He Flails it like a Bell
Then says Sternly that
“Those who don’t Handle Are Doomed to Eternal Hell.”
T
hey all Line Up
Keen to Test their Faith
Each Tempting Fangs
Their Bosoms And Throats
Exposed As if to Say...

Show! Your! Self! Or Strike Me Dead.

The Pastor Quakes then Gives Pause Flush-Faced his Brow Perspires
He looks to his Hand: Two Punctures A Sight he knows all too well
Determined he Carries on
Each Heartbeat Pumps the Venom A Sermon in Swollen Tongues
A Sound the know all too well
Choking on Blood and Vomit
He Collapses as the Choir Sings Out “I’m Ready to Leave this World”
A Song they know all too well

credits

from The Grim And Crooked Ride, track released November 6, 2011
Recorded by Matt Smith at Hi/Lo Studios. Mixed by John Angelo. Mastered by Doug White at Watchmen Studios. Artwork by Ian Wiedrick.

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