Verse 1
Down where the cypress drink the moonlight black
There’s a crooked trail that never leads you back
Whispers hanging heavy from the Spanish moss
Every prayer you carry got a hidden cost
Footsteps in the water where nobody stands
Smoke curling upward from invisible hands
Mama said don’t wander when the cicadas sing
But the darkness always knows the shape of broken things
Pre-Chorus
And I swear I saw his eyes
Burning through the fog tonight
Like a lantern in the mouth of hell
Chorus
Oh the Voodoo Man
Knows every secret that you buried in the sand
He’ll take your pain and turn it into gold
Then leave you haunted by the things you never told
The Voodoo Man
Got my name stitched into the palm of his hand
And every road I run just brings me back again
To the fire and the grin of the Voodoo Man
Verse 2
He wears a coat of shadows and a rattlesnake smile
Says he’s been collecting lonely souls awhile
Got a pocket full of promises and bones
Makes a kingdom out of people feeling all alone
I asked him if redemption was a thing he knew
He laughed and said redemption’s just another wound
Then he pointed at the scars beneath my skin
Like he knew where I’d been before I’d ever been
Pre-Chorus
And the thunder rolled above
Like a warning from the gods
But I was already too far gone
Chorus
Oh the Voodoo Man
Knows every secret that you buried in the sand
He’ll take your pain and turn it into gold
Then leave you haunted by the things you never told
The Voodoo Man
Got my name stitched into the palm of his hand
And every road I run just brings me back again
To the fire and the grin of the Voodoo Man
Bridge
Tie my regrets to the roots of the trees
Hang my sorrow with the ghosts in the leaves
If salvation’s waiting somewhere I can’t see
Why does darkness feel more honest to me?
Final Chorus
Oh the Voodoo Man
Knows every demon and he calls them all by name
He showed me every part of me I tried to hide
Now the monster and the man stand side by side
The Voodoo Man
And when the river comes to wash away the land
You’ll find me dancing in the ashes of the end
With the fire and the grin of the Voodoo Man.
QXA
