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There’s a mad puppeteer toiling in the swamp
in a shack made of human bone and the puppets that he haunts
They hang like crucifixions from their fraying threads
but unlike the saints, these ones aren’t dead

Down in the old Bayou, down in the old Bayou
Down where nightmares come true in the old Bayou
Down in the old Bayou.

There’s an aligator older than the French-Canadian war
and every harvest moon he knocks at the puppet master’s door
The puppet master feeds him on the blood of girls and boys
The gator’s eyes are beating hearts, his scales are broken toys

Locked in his cold marionettes,
are those lured by his sweet voodoo
He severs the soul from the flesh
Don’t get lost my child walkin’ in the old Bayou

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from Don't be Afraid; It's Only Death, released June 6, 2013

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