Raven’s Fair Escape

{eerie

clean electric guitar arpeggios} {creaky floorboard sound design}

{slow, heavy ride cymbal strikes} (shhhhh) When I first saw that haunted

house in Raven’s Fair

I went inside and held my breath right then and there

And sitting on a dusty wooden rocking chair

Was Billy the Ventriloquist Doll with his cold,

blank stare

{tension builds with low cello drone} Mary Shaw and Billy did a

sneak attack No warning in the dark behind my back Trying to

cut my tongue and make me fall To turn my living body

to a wooden doll

(no!) {distorted guitar chord

swells} But I broke through the shadow and I ran away Left

the evil of that valley where the dead things play Escaped the

curse and made it back alive today Way down in Austin,

Texas where I'm gonna stay

(yeah!) {driving uptempo rock groove} They missed their target,

yeah I slipped their tightest grip

Got on the highway,

made a midnight southern trip

They wanted my voice,

they wanted my skin to fold

But this Lone Star heart is one they'll never hold

{twangy electric guitar fills}

They missed their mark

(hahaha) Safe in the southern sun

No wooden doll, yeah I'm the living one

{fading acoustic guitar and slide swells} {final heavy drum hit}