The Demon

from The Rider by Blackwood Overdrive

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The hands he plays are taking hours
The joy fades away
The taste of the beer he drinks turns foul
And becomes stomach ache
The sweetness condenses ‘til sours
Bitterness saturates
The smiling faces turn to scowls
And fester into hate

He’s in a trap, he’s in their lap
He’s at the mercy of this town
Must break away, with no delay
He’s gotta turn this thing around
The barren, nothingness is safety from the town
Must break away, destroy this place
Burn it - down

And now he’s the devil
Now he’s the bringer of death
He’s making the trap in which he’s been wrapped
And he’s gonna catch em
He won’t let ‘em out
He’ll ride it out on his own
For now he can tell
That he is in hell
This hell is his hell
This hell is his hell alone

He unscrews the fuel cap, tilts the bike to the side
Letting incendiary nectar spread out wide
He lights a match a and he steps back - must be ten paces
He flicks it into the fuel pool lighting up the place

Without a fight the bar’s alight
Inside of a thirty seconds flat
And, within two, it’s neighbours too
The Rider’s running out the back
He gets on board, the throttle floored
And rides from the screams
The town becomes dead woods

And now he’s the devil
Now he’s the bringer of death
He’s making the trap in which he’s been wrapped
And he’s gonna catch em
He won’t let ‘em out
He’ll ride this life out on his own
For now he can tell
That he is in hell
This hell is his hell
This hell is his hell alone

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from The Rider, released April 30, 2018

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Subverting highway Rock'n'Roll, by way of the origins of doom, with stories inspired by King's Dark Tower.

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