I have never been this afraid before
The symptoms passed 
From a shadow cast 
When you thought you were safe

I cried at your back while you lie
Looking out the door
An outline thrashing your sleep
On your skin from your kin

Was it my father 
Or the empty skull of a man I knew?
Was it here or down on a continent 
I couldn’t tell left from right?

VERSE

But in your stone walled darkened room
All lit up - purple and blue
I’ve been looking long for you 
Now your long hair left on a chemical score

But for water when your skin is cracking
Look just over the line!
They’ll blind you if you pay them what they ask 
Head-in-sand when the specter crash the shore!

CHORUS

Rubber on my shoe, can’t shock me like you want to
Blood’ll turn into a fancy pudding in the fire
Don’t you know electricity is just heat on heat on heat
Funny some of us see more light with our eyes closed 
A darkened room

BRIDGE

Won’t you take a bath when you need to darlin’
Luxuriate in the moment if you drown I’ll swim up to you from the upside-down
Where I’ll find you any time I commit a crime without you
Speak my name into the food that I cannot devour
From the nape of your neck where I saw once

How you looked out
How you looked out
How you looked out at that specter!!!

VERSE

In your ears a glassy land
Diatomaceous earth and sand
Have your eyes ever been this red?
Ever stooped so low?

Pick up pick up as we go
The laughter roars
A teardrop rolls
Down your face as it hits - you know the shape of that old ghost

CHORUS/OUTRO

Rubber on my shoe don’t you come knocking here for something crude
Rubber on my shoe nearly wore out from casting this spell for you
Rubber on my shoe that empty skull now light-filled, vicious from the night-time
What you oughta do? 
I don’t think I’ll be seeing you but it was at the right ti-
i-ah ah I I ah I I ah -ime
i-ah ah I I ah I I ah -ime

Specter

An original effigy to a dead version of myself, captured while dying.

Specter

Lucky's Blues