come creepy crawl right through 
my mansion 
in these crooked halls
we are so damn handsome 
so show me where you’ve been
cauterized 
now come make love to your 
former lives, she said 

come spend some time 
in my open grave 
when the stars fade out
i’ll be your slave 
now dance up close 
to the phantom queen
beg for candy sweet
from impaled machines, she said

come creepy crawl this
burning house 
feel the fever soak 
through my scraped up blouse 
the wax witch
does not want your laughter 
she’s got a secret for you
but she’ll tell you after, she said 

come creepy crawl right through
my mansion
in these crooked halls
we are so damn handsome 
oh the wax witch
does not want your laughter
it’s so hard to tell
just what she’s after….  

(c) 2017 PetPetPet productions

feverskull

Creepy Crawl With Me!

one ugly morning
you painted all your windows black
you weighed down
for a gentle drown
you didn’t call anyone back
you felt like you were ready
for a new experience and so…

you got so wasted

one ugly morning
you awoke to the flavor
of bayonets
your hands wet from clawing
the girl with the barb wire crown
as she laughed and wept

“one ugly morning
you will spread like a bat wing kite”
she said
“and one ugly morning you will 
give yourself to drowning drowning”

you got so wasted 

one ugly morning
you lay down, gently screaming
in the frozen grass
cradled by the tender torturers
making plans for murder 
down in the underpass

“you’ve got that crazy crazy feeling
it’s the crossroad blues again…
you want that crazy crazy feeling?
like you’re drowning drowning?”

you got so wasted

one ugly morning
you awoike to the flavor
of bayonets
“you call that performing?”
said the girl with the crown of thorns
and the cigarettes

“you’ve got that lonely lowly feeling
it’s the crossroad blues again…
you want that lonely lowly feeling?
like you’re drowning drowning?”

you got so wasted

… and so
you slip to the other side
go curl up
with your borrowed knives
shut it off
when you recognize
paint your windows black

turn it off

(c) 2017 PetPetPet Productions

cave dolls

Ugly Morning

this is a song 
for the sad punks you know
and this is a song
for the sad punks you don’t know

i made a friend
on a fire escape i said
“hi there let me take you home
i’ll hold you nice
through this fucked up night
we can watch the fireworks 
on my phone”
then my friend stretched out
like a feedback loop
that you’d hear 
through a vast keyhole
so i took more pills
for some sad sick thrills
and realized that i still felt all alone
all alone

this is a song 
for the sad punks you know
and this is a song
for the sad punks you don’t know

the jukebox is grinding out
those sacred trucker hymns
it’s like every 
goddamn song i hear
knows exactly where i’ve been
and i know there’s nothing left
so i guess
i’m gonna get myself caught
or take more pills
for the sad sick thrills
and then i’ll shriek until my face
falls off (that’ll probably be our next single)

this is a song 
for the sad punks you know
and this is a song
for the sad punks that you don’t know

(c) 2017 PetPetPet Productions

Song For Sad Punks

you lay it all down
on that broken highway, yeah
between the flames and the night
and the trill of the sirens
the girl with the witchcraft fever
is calling
…saying baby come on

the devil will collect
but he wants you to come correct
and to come alone

you’re fiending all night 
with the junkie nurses
through the sizzle of the rain
come their shiny hearses
the witchcraft fever
it is turning you on YES
… saying baby come on

the devil will collect
but he wants you to come correct
and to come alone

you get so high 
on the witchcraft fever
seek a white noise inferno
through your hacked receiver
you’re striking up a pose
with that bent up cleaver
…saying baby come on

the devil will collect
but he wants you to come correct 
and to come alone
i said the devil will collect
but he wants you wants you
gotta gotta have you

last night i saw the devil 
he was wearing my raincoat and i said
hey, don’t i know you?

(c) 2017 PetPetPet Productions

the witchcraft fever

the night was coming on as you
collapsed there 
in that hall of mirrors.
“what a laugh,”
said some vague passerby.
the note was in your pocket,
and your blade, 
also your broken locket…
the note said simply this:
it said goodbye

now you can lie on a tray,
or you could just float away,
or shrug 
as you are handed your disguise.
you and your tender crutch,
so many lonely companions
still to touch,
each of them soon to say
goodbye…
you don’t even know just why.

you can come out and play
or you could just float away goodbye

the night was dripping down
as you followed 
some carny’s sullen shadow,
following in search 
of haunted highs.
he led you through the rubble,
said, while making love 
on a pile of shovels: “so lovely
are your cemetery eyes”

now you can feel all betrayed
or you could just float away
or shrug
while you are casually denied.
you and your tender crutch,
so many lonely companions 
still to touch,
each of them soon to say
goodbye…
you don’t even know just why

you can come out and play
or you could just float away goodbye
goodbye

(c) 2017 PetPetPet Productions

The Goodbye Song

Secret Caves May 2017... Carrie B: bass guitar   Simon: lead guitar Caligula Jr:  vocals, acoustic guitar  Ghostie Jo: piano  Slappie: drums

love lately has found me 
cross-eyed on my lawn
that girl in the stolen shoes don’t
wanna dance
she tells me where we’ve been
as she teases me along
and every fool on the turnpike
understands
even as they’re falling away

i won’t be waiting
on her phone call now
i’ll spend my afternoon dancing
in wet cement
the girl with the stolen shoes
don’t wanna know how
how the fools on the turnpike knew
just what i meant
even as i’m falling away

“so tell me 
do you still believe in love?”
says the girl in the stolen shoes
as she is dancing away
“as if,” she adds, “you 
don’t have problems enough—”
and then she falls on the turnpike,
falls on the turnpike!! 
…and i don’t even know what to say

so tell me, do you still believe in love?
tell me do you still believe in love?
(…as if you don’t have problems enough)


(c) 2017 PetPetPet productions

for the girl with the stolen shoes

secret caves

i still believe in love

Secret Caves June 2017   Carrie: Bass Guitar   Simon: Lead Guitars  Caligula Jr: Vocals, Acoustic Gtr, tambourine   Ghostie Jo: piano, feedback   Slappie: Drums


i don’t wanna know
all the causal dangers
you told me where you go
and all about your strangers
god save
the pawnshop angels
‘cause they’re going down alone

where you gonna sleep tonight?

i don’t care
if you see another lover
and i don’t stare
when you tell me keep it covered
god save
the pawnshop angels
‘cause they’re going down alone

where you gonna sleep tonight?

slowly goes the night
for pawnshop angels
where you gonna sleep tonight
my pawnshop angels?
god save
you’re waiting on the signal
god save
waiting on a signal
god save 
the pawnshop angels
god save 
the pawnshop angels
‘cause they’re going down alone

where you gonna sleep tonight?

(c) 2017 PetPetPet Productions

pawnshop angels

SECRET CAVES summer edition, guest guitar: Rizzer

with a grin
like carving knives
she holds you back
got the medicine in hand
as she makes her sad demands 
from the cul-de-sac

…in your secret cave

what you fail to understand
in the tunnel of love, in
a secret cave,
she says shut it down,
takes off your dress
and gives you kisses in a grave

…in your secret cave

while you’re blacking out the moon
they lay you down
right down to the bottom 
and the gold coins,
they pour down your throat
till you beg their pardon

…in your secret cave  

you can tell me what you saw
you can tell me what you saw
you didn’t see no ghost
you’re a liar
you’re a liar
and i’d like to lay down in your 
funeral pyre
and propose a toast
…in your secret cave,

(c) 2017 by PetPetPet Productions

kisses in a grave

Secret Caves expanded summer 2017 edition, Carrie, Simon, Rizz & Caligula Jr 


cry
if your hollywood’s bleeding
your reflection is deceiving
it’s been leading you round
and round

hesitation 
why so violent, this vacation?
asks the shivering outpatient
who’s been leading you round
and round

bride,
is your hollywood bleeding?
and where are you leading?
you’ve been leading me down, down

we’re all clouded
and the bullets we doubted
the night sky is our shroud, it…
it keeps leading us down, down

the greasepaint preacher came in
lingering down by the hallway door
he wondered what the bullets
in your palm were for
we kept interrupting his sermon
with questions and laughter
he held us close though
in the storm that came after
he reminded us: friends
the night shapes can be deceiving
one thing is certain though
hollywood is bleeding
and then he revealed 
that he had been joking 
as we lay in the dirt
fiending and choking

ride on
hollywood’s bleeding
and the tide is receding
it’s dragging you down, down
i will remember
how you begged, you were so tender
but that part of me is dismembered
and it’s dragging us down, down…. down

(c) 2017 PetPetPet Productions

hollywood bleeds

Secret Caves summer edition: Carrie, Simon, Caligula Jr  with guests Rizz and Alec, a fine collection of gentlemen and ladies 

i can turn the cheek
and twist the bayonet
i can bunch that leash
for the winsome silhouette
i am a gentleman
i am a gentleman

i can videotape
that righteous mongrel
i can kiss that flicker
off the hangman’s candle
i am a gentleman
i am a gentleman

i can trade your cause
for a wilting flower
i can train your claws
for a hungering hour
i am a gentleman
i am a gentleman

i can sell my prayers
on the trashheap mountain
and dance my way 
right through one hundred drownings
i am a gentleman 
i am a gentleman

i can trade your cause 
for a wilting flower
i can train your claws
for a hungering hour
i am a gentleman
i am a gentleman

(c) 2017 by PetPetPet Productions

i am a gentleman

Secret Caves Farewell Summertime edition: Carrie, Simon, Joe, Caligula Jr

i got lost
courting in the forest
surrounded by the strangler tourists
they have come
to mesmerize
leave me bloodstained in my tie dyes

lay me down, down in the ditch now
lay me down with my clever witch now
she has come
to show me the magic
lay me down with her violence emphatic
yeah

cinemas of night time teeming
with the wild eyed lovers 
screaming
i got caught out in the moonlight
a tempest toss’d 
i will
never do right, yeah

… then, from beneath the trapdoor, 
someone called out my name.
it was not a voice i recognized,  but
i beckoned “come closer” just the same….

i got lost 
courting in the forest
surrounded by your comely chorus
they have come 
to mesmerize
leave me bloodstained in my tie dyes

lay me down
in my ditch forever
lay me down
with my witch so clever
she has come 
to show me the violence
pay in blood for a night of sirens

(c) 2017 PetPetPet Productions

Blood On My Tie-Dye

Secret Caves Autumn edition: Carrie, Simon, Joe, Caligula Jr

as i get down for mentals
with my butter knife
you’re out there in the rental
bleeding on my wife

so this is the high life
and i don’t ever wanna come down
yeah yeah

caress my shotgun baby
with your silver spoon
come rolling with me later
in my fake lagoon

so this is the high life
and you don’t ever get to come down
no no

let’s celebrate our love
with this here monkey’s paw
snort powder off my crucifix
then dance some more

so this is the high life
and you don’t ever get to come down
no no

(c) 2017 by PetPetPet Productions

monkey's paw

Secret Caves Halloween Is Forever Edition: Carrie, Simon, Joe, Caligula Jr

lisa lost her way on the road
and down came the phantoms
the fog it hung heavy 
as tears streamed from her 
beautiful eyes
she found her way back
to that smoking hole
where the camp was
and something held her hand
and it wasn’t something alive
i know it wasn’t something alive

and lisa went drifting
on down to the palace 
of madness
to the catacombs 
where she finally felt half alive
she wrapped herself slowly
in the shroud
of her ghastly companion
they kissed hard
as the winding sheet billowed
and flapped in the night
it was such a spectacular sight

lisa ducked behind
a tree in that forgotten
graveyard
she laughed to herself 
as the funeral train stumbled by
that face peering up
from the coffin on further inspection
resembled sweet lisa
on the fateful day that she died
such a spectacular sight
…now go on darling 
wave goodbye

(c) 2017 by Secret Caves

The Haunting

Secret Caves is Carrie, Simon, Joe & Caligula Jr

i don’t wanna lose control
i just wanna scream
all through the recitation
come and help me dig this hole
there’s a knife 
between my teeth but
i’m holding a flower

i don’t wanna be a friend
i don’t wanna dream
about your celebration 
i don’t want this day to end
there’s a knife 
between my teeth
but i’m holding a flower

hide inside a fire hide hide

i don’t wanna lose control
i don’t wanna feast 
upon the plans you’re scheming
i just want the bell to toll
there’s a knife 
between my teeth but 
i’m holding a flower

hide inside a fire hide hide

perched atop that chainlink fence
in the terrible violent summer of love
i spied a girl like a ghost
with a dress made of needles
led me down to the beach
sand streaked with blood
and we held hands with the 
vampire starlets
as the pesticide formed a gorgeous cloud
and i said oh kill kill kill
but i didn’t say it out loud

i don’t wanna lose control
i just wanna jig
through the indoctrination
come and help me dig 
this hole
there’s a knife 
between my teeth but
im holding a flower

(c) 2017 by Secret Caves

Bride Of Scream Machine

Secret Caves LoveSongs edition: Carrie, Simon, Joe, Caligula Jr

the night tide creatures
want your love
come see about 
the most beautiful girl
on the gallows
she’ll stroke your stitches
it’s never enough
so come ride 
the white lightning 
whip her shape shift
through the narrows

night tide creatures
hold my hand
oh! the chemical preachers
man bold double features
on shifting sand
night tide creatures
let me go
all the spidery teachers
with sickly stained features
spray “on with the show”

and you can 
flash that revolver, come on
and you can swear 
your broke heart
to the river
well she was here last night, yes
now she’s gone
the most beautiful girl
on the gallows
the most beautiful girl
on the gallows

night tide creatures
hold my hand
oh! the chemical preachers
man bold double features
on shifting sand
night tide creatures
let me go
all the spidery teachers
with sickly stained features
spray “on with the show”

and you can flash that revolver
come on

the night tide creatures
want your love
the night tide creatures
oh they want your love
oh they want your love

(c) 2017 by Secret Caves

love song 666

YONDER LIE THE RUINS EP 
1. murder mile 2. yonder lie the ruins 3. the stars that fail to shine 4. frozen ocean
recorded feb 20, 27 march 6 & 12 2018
in room 8 seattle
Secret Caves is Carrie, Joe, Simon, Caligula Jr

MURDER MILE

will you let this creature
into your heart?
you’ve craved that golden kennel
right from the start.
will you walk with me
the lonely mile?
let the devil tune your guitar,
you’re only a child.

i want the pennies on your eyes
i want the pennies on your eyes
and it is such a beautiful night
these are the tears that never dry

will you share
my night of mortal sin?
we’ll coil beneath the smoke
and the burning wind.
will you walk with me
the murder mile?
let the devil tune your guitar,
you’re only a child.

these are the pennies on your eyes
these are the pennies on your eyes
and it is such a beautiful night
these are the tears that never dry
i want the pennies on your eyes
i want the pennies on your eyes
these are the tears that never dry
these are the tears that never dry

YONDER LIE THE RUINS

her veil is black
as the crows of december
the girl’s got a laugh
it’ll leave you dismembered
she’s gone in search
of the man with the arrows
she’s got no time for the
straight and narrow
shes got no time for the
straight and narrow come on

we spend our lives grieving
cradle to grave
yonder lie the ruins
your baby’s gone away
the gallows stretch
up to the sky
are you too young
to wonder why now?
are you too young
to wonder why?

her veil is black
as the crows of december
in her little black heart
she will always remember
the tattoo on her wrist says
“a life of sorrow”
she’s got no time
for the straight and narrow
she’s got no time
for the straight and narrow

this little town is filthy
no you’re the one that’s filthy
i’ve been hoping that you’d
kill me
i’ve been hoping that you’d kill me


THE STARS THEY FAIL TO SHINE

the stars
they fall so impassive now
you’re feeling like
you’ve finally found a friend
he tells you that you’re so pretty
so you cut him on down
from the hangman’s tree, come on…
see just how the branches bend

and lost
you’re bound up in frail ecstacies
you’re broken
on the rocks, my god come on
and how we be really sure
you stripped in the wrong corridor?
you’re lost
and the cut rate saints won’t
let you be

the stars
they fall so impassive now
recognize
the glassy eyes come on
have you seen your effigy? it’s
prettier than we’ll ever be
the stars
they fall so impassive now, they fall

at last
you find yourself tied to the mast
you paid for this
and one final kiss, come on
you tell yourself you ain’t no good
the moon reflects
off the mariah’s hood
the stars
they fall so impassive now
they fall


MY FROZEN OCEAN

you are afraid
of a demonstration
coerced into
that frozen ocean
tie your weary soul to mine love
tie your weary soul to mine love

climb to the top
of the mannequin mountain
coerced into
that frozen ocean
call your lover by the devil’s name
you and i and the mirror
we’re all insane… we’re all insane

tie your weary soul to mine love
the sordid confession
it won’t suffice this time
coerced into that
frozen ocean
you are afraid
of a demonstration, we’re all afraid

(c) 2018 by Secret Caves

Yonder Lie The Ruins 4 song EP

1 moment of weakness 2 more lies who cares 3 you & me and the devil makes three(*) 4 hotel beds 5 drugstore kisses (*) 6 throw your guns into the river 7 fake out 8 drainbow 9 let the river carry us away 10 this gun 4 hire

album cover photo by Greg Connors (@greg-connors)
album design by Connors & Caligula Jr

"let the river carry me away" PHOTOS, LYRICS, and MORE Secret information here: secretcaves.livejournal.com/631.html

Secret Caves: Carrie, Simon, Joe, Caligula Jr, Peder(*)

recorded march 27 - June 12 in Room 8, Seattle
except track 10, instruments recorded aug. 31, 2017
all songs (c) 2018 by Secret Caves

let the river carry me away LP

Secret Caves summer fun edition

i’m drinking with a friend
it’s such a lonely life
you know baby in our sea sick town
we dance upon the knife
each friday night

the devil knows your name
he knows what’s in your heart
he knows what windows
you’ve been peeking in baby
he knows that 
you’re a narc inside your heart

do you believe me
when i tell you 
that the surf queen
is not your friend
do you believe me 
when i tell you that she kisses 
like a poison pen yeah

now lay beneath the waves
you’ve got it all for sure
you carry all your dull disguises
but are they really yours
and are you really sure? 

i’m drinking with a friend
there’s nowhere else to go
we tell each other
the sad sad truth yeah
that  every lie we know can only grow

do you believe me
when i tell you that the surf queen
is not your friend
do you believe me

(c) 2018 by Secret Caves

surf queen

Secret Caves Disco Edition: Carrie, Simon, Peder and Caligula Jr

and we can dance 
mr disco
we can dance
mr disco 
and we can dance

and when we scale the catacombs,
god you’re gullible
i’m gonna shake those lazy bones
to see what you’ve been through
mr disco 
i want you to hold me
hold me like you know me
mr disco 
send me a letter
tell me that you love me better

lover, spider
i wanna feel you come in close
traitor in the crater
fashion now a double dose of that poison

and when you climbed the guillotine
did you do it for love?
ya cut yourself to pieces, no 
i still don’t think it’s enough
mr disco
sing me a song now
make me feel the belief
mr disco
drag me along now
as i’m pulled down underneath

mr disco
i want bloodshed
on the dance floor
i want bloodshed mr disco


(c) 2018 by Secret Caves

mr disco

Secret Caves End Of Summer edition: Carrie, Simon, Peder & Caligula Jr

i’ve been counting time
in a doorway
just cowering from the rain
yeah i know
i’m nothing special
still i’d like the chance to explain
i’ve been missing 
certain pieces
since i goddamn don’t know when
and you’re always looking
for trouble 
with a good friend

tell me that you’re coming home tonight
tell me that you’re coming home
tonight

so i shared a drink 
with a good friend just 
a good friend
did she touch me?
now just tell me, would it 
really make a difference?
leave me raving
in the rain now
and i’ll scrape my heart away
then i’ll lay me down
with a bad friend
just a bad friend

tell me that you’re coming home tonight
tell me that you’re coming home
tonight

(c) 2018 by Secret Caves

good friend

from our new LP, Sour Candy 10 Love Songs by Secret Caves, available for lovers only!!!  find it here: https://secretcaves.bandcamp.com/releases
art by Syd! https://twitter.com/bugfactz
close your eyes
for every night has its secrets
come claim your prize
from this tub of filthy trinkets

defy the wind
let me come in
though all the doors they might 
swing wide
you slashed for days
and walked roads unpaved 
but you will lay here with me tonight

a clever child
oh but you grew up so haunted
the flames run wild
oh, was this not what you wanted?

defy the wind
don’t let them in
for you are sworn now to me 
my love
the saints parade
while dancing profane
but still they pray on their knees
for love

and so we cast off 
in that burned balloon
returned up to the sky
then a fabulous fall 
and farewell to you all
well i never was much of one 
for goodbyes

open your eyes
now you are just another secret
the serpent unwinds
you ask “darling, can we keep it?”

yes i’m the wind
and i’m coming in
and all the doors 
they shall swing wide
we slashed for days
and walked roads unpaved
but you will lay here with me tonight

(c) 2018 by Secret Caves

trinkets

one final blast from your Cave Pals as we bid farewell to 2018. hoppy hollerdays to you all and don't forget to dance dance dance

on monday morning
my guru told me
your fake jazz mantra’s gonna
do you right
leaned his thumb 
to the highway said 
I’ll see you later
with a mouth full of wasps
do the mashed potato

when the bouncer said
sir i do not want to fight you
i replied, you’ve got no choice
put ‘em up
then i leaned my back
against the ole dumbwaiter
with a mouth full of wasps
did the mashed potato

lay it down
fake jazz fake jazz! 
do the dirty dog
lay it down
fake jazz fake jazz!
do the dirty dog NOW

down in the orchestra pit 
chrissy held herself and cried 
and she whispered to me:
no-one else will EVER do 
the electric slide
like HE can

on sunday evening my guru returned
he said, you miss me boy?
i said who are you
save your fancy words for
the space invaders
with a mouth full of wasps
do the mashed potato

lay it down
fake jazz fake jazz! 
do the dirty dog
lay it down
fake jazz fake jazz!
do the dirty dog 

with a mouth full of wasps do the 
mashed potato 

(c) 2018 by Secret Caves

mouth full of wasps

from the SLITHER ON! 6 song EP, now available on bandcamp: https://secretcaves.bandcamp.com/album/slither-on  )

take off your hospital gown
tonight we taste
the sweet fruit of this revenge
i am your madman now
and lo! the storm is rising rising

ohhh the siren strangely cries

let’s spill your hungering heart
with carnage 
we shall cradle amidst the gore
as this world comes apart
we’ll fan the flames they’re rising rising 

ohhh the siren sadly cries

here comes the funeral train
come tell me 
is this someone that you recognize
i’ll pull upon your chain
this day has been surprising surprising

ohhh the siren faintly cries

there goes your haunted friend
you nod your head
pretend that you can handle it
he won’t return again
and lo! the storm is rising rising

ohhhhh  and the siren sadly cries

remove this hospital gown
i wanna show you
who i really am
i’ll be your madman now
let all the flames keep rising rising

ohhh
the siren strangely cries

and so
i let you push me down
into that burning street and we 
revealed our true natures at last
and i said
don’t worry darling
the hospital won’t forget who you are

the siren sadly cried

the hospital won't forget who you are

Hey everyone! Follow this here link to see your pals Secret Caves in action! https://youtu.be/2MmLy6hJqqg ... Here's the scoop:

The Caves recently performed on the fabulous talk show IN THE ATTIC WITH PIPER.  The show is hosted by the inimitable Piper, a true princess and also? a true puppet! Secret Caves sat down for an interview with Piper, who is known for her insightful inquiries and merciless pursuit of the truth, and yes the band revealed ALL the dirt. We also performed a couple of songs, including one from our new 6 song EP "tell the devil i can't be late" (currently FREE on our bandcamp! https://secretcaves.bandcamp.com/album/tell-the-devil-i-cant-be-late-ep) ... and there's more! Lucifer himself stopped by to hobnob with the band and Piper, sing a pensive little song, condemn an unlucky puppet to hellfire... you know, good clean fun.  Watch now!! (well, after 1pm PST): https://youtu.be/2MmLy6hJqqg

meanwhile, here's the words to THIS song of ours, also from the new EP...
i wanna fill all my heart with moonshine
and make it clear why you’ve never been mine
i wanna sell out a lie that comes true
i wanna walk with the devil for you
i wanna waltz in the martyrs parade
and then i’ll strip on the overnight train
i wanna pierce through your bleak ballyhoo
i wanna walk with the devil for you

come inside now
there’s no need to face it alone
let it ride now
come inside

i wanna twist up my soul on the wheel
and sling my wares in the valley of steel
i wanna break all the vows we renewed
i wanna walk with devil for you
and when you finally limp back to shore
i’ll take you out for the 3 dollar tour
i wanna burst through your bleak ballyhoo
i wanna walk with the devil for you

come inside now
there’s no need to face it alone
let it ride now
come inside

i don’t need much
just one single taste of that destruction
just one single touch
come lay your hands on my corruption

i wanna walk with the devil for you
I wanna break the vows we renewed
I wanna walk with the devil for you

walk with the devil

watch us perform Drugstore Kisses and other songs here: youtu.be/2MmLy6hJqqg   on In The Attic With Piper, a show hosted by Puppet Princess Piper! we sit down for a brief interview, play songs, sacrifice another puppet to the devil.... the usual.


i’m putting on a show 
for the tawdry chemist 
he knows just what to do
you play it all off
but you couldn’t care less
as long as i keep coming through

i take it all off
for the vicodin cowboys
take it all off
gonna make some big noise
take it all off 
for the vicodin cowboys
you know how i do
when i do it for you

i’m getting real lost
in your drugstore kisses
you know i’m gonna
stay the night
and even if this world
gets a little bit vicious 
i know it’s gonna be alright

i take it all off
for the vicodin cowboys
take it all off
gonna spread some big joy
take it all off 
for the vicodin cowboys
you know what i’ll do
when i do it for you

i don’t beleive in phantoms
i don’t believe that you’ll be 
coming back to me
i don’t believe in the anthems
of them carny code priests
who say they see right through me
i don’t believe in your drugstore kisses
i don’t believe in forbidden wishes
i don’t believe in some lucky star
or the way you strum that tin guitar
i don’t believe in the vicodin cowboys
i don’t believe in the vicodin cowboys

i’m putting on a show
for the tawdry chemist
he knows just what to do
you play it all off but you couldn’t 
care less
as long as i keep coming through
and i keep coming through

(c) 2018 by Secret Caves

drugstore kisses (WATCH the Caves perform this song! link in Description)

a track from our EP "tell the devil i can't be late" 
https://secretcaves.bandcamp.com/album/tell-the-devil-i-cant-be-late-ep

my pockets stained 
from bloody dollar bills
i should lay low
but then i can’t get my thrills
you know the lord 
loves a stickup man
this pistol’s 
feeling mighty fine in my hand

while stealing cars
outside the town of Slaughter
i lost my heart
to the hangman’s daughter
she held me close
while i whispered all my plans
she knows the lord
loves a stickup man
that’s what i am

baptized with the bullets
baptized in the ring of fire
baptized in the sewers
yeah you’ll be baptized get those
hands up high

i am a stickup man
oh the lord loves a stickup man
that’s what i am

we had to leave my partner
slim behind
while robbing banks down
on the county line
he said my friends
it’s time to make my stand
cuz the lord he loves a stickup man

my lady love is crying
out in the streets
my blood is spilling 
in the desert heat
as the sheriff’s shouting
show your hands
oh the lord 
loves a stickup man
that’s what i am

baptized with the bullets
baptized with a noose
baptized with tequila fire
and the fearful shame 
i cannot shake loose

i am a stickup man
o lord i am a stickup man
that’s what i am

(c) 2019 by Secret Caves

stick-up man

COMING IN JUNE: a big pile of demos from Room 8... stay tuned for more details!

and, inevitably there will be  "Doomy Gloomy Love Songs", a new LP from your cavepals. watch for more info and songs this summer/autumn

meanwhile, come visit our instagram, won't you? https://www.instagram.com/secretcavesband/

also, check us out on video here: Secret Caves perform on IN THE ATTIC WITH PIPER: https://youtu.be/2MmLy6hJqqg   stop in and see Secret Caves playing songs, sitting down for an interview, and cavorting with puppets, the devil, etc...   "In The Attic..." is a delightful talk show hosted by Piper, a true Princess among puppets (she even has the tiara to prove it, as you'll soon see!)... 

and! our EP  "tell the devil i can't be late" is free free free on Bandcamp! https://secretcaves.bandcamp.com/album/tell-the-devil-i-cant-be-late-ep
6 new songs, go get 'em and play them LOUD, friends! 

All the tears in the world can't stop us laughing, dammit.  We want to wrap you up in mellow doom and give you delirious kisses as the city burns.

Secret Caves

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