[Intro]
[needle crackle, warped carnival organ]
Welcome to the ditch side
Gator eyes in the floodlight
Rust on the "keep out" sign
You still crossed that line (hah)
[Verse 1]
Mud on my boots, black grin
Lantern swing slow by the trailer skin
Mouth full of graveyard jokes I spit
Every word taste copper and spit
Got a jaw like a cracked old mason jar
Keep teeth in a box in the back of the car
I been carving my name in the pine for years
It bleed sap and it drink my fears
You a city little lamb in a hog pen
Think it’s cosplay till it all sets in
Hear a laugh from the tree line, wrong pitch
See a dress on a scarecrow, same stitch
Cross nailed shut with the barbed wire halo
Cornfield choir sing, all off-key alto
I don’t warn, I welcome
Two seats left in the bedlam (climb in)
[Chorus]
Backwoods freakshow, pay at the throat
Ticket is a secret that you never should’ve spoke
Step right up, one by one, get chose
We don’t close, we don’t close
Backwoods freakshow, mud on the floor
Every little sin got a crack in the door
Smile for the knife-edge, strike that pose
We don’t close, we don’t close (nope)
[Verse 2]
She walk out the barn in a veil of flies
Lipstick smeared like a failed sunrise
Tattooed script of a dead girl’s prayer
Runs down her neck like she cut that dare
She lick rust off the nails in the fence (mmm)
Call that communion, taste that sense
Make saints outta sinners with a side-eye glance
Got a ring made of vertebrae, promise dance
Voice like a hymn sung under the floor
Says, "You look lost, you’re what I’ve been looking for"
Tongue split sweet like a serpent joke
Syllables twist like the kudzu choke
She don’t sell flesh, she sell bad choices
Choir of crows all mimic her voices
Say "yes" once, now your echo mine
Pinned like a moth on a clothesline
[Chorus]
Backwoods freakshow, pay at the throat
Ticket is a secret that you never should’ve spoke
Step right up, one by one, get chose
We don’t close, we don’t close
Backwoods freakshow, mud on the floor
Every little sin got a crack in the door
Smile for the knife-edge, strike that pose
We don’t close, we don’t close
[Bridge]
[record spinback, distant dogs howl]
Who’s that in the ditch with the gas can grin?
Who’s that in the field say "come on in"?
Radio static spell your name so slow
Every dead channel still says "don’t go" (too late)
[Chorus]
Backwoods freakshow, pay at the throat
Ticket is a secret that you never should’ve spoke
Step right up, one by one, get chose
We don’t close, we don’t close
Backwoods freakshow, mud on the floor
Every little sin got a crack in the door
Smile for the knife-edge, strike that pose
We don’t close, we don’t close (never)