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The Devil Tree

from The Devil Tree EP by Fossil

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lyrics

mickey climbed the devil tree
just to see what he could see
but the old town was dead
black as autumn leaves
it was time to leave

the last time i saw him was on that oil rig off the coast of galveston
he said we can't stop what's comin
then he shook my hand
said i'll see you again

i looked in his eyes saw nothing but fear
our oil stained faces hiding all our tears
and the lines on our palms showed no future
they were just maps of wasted years

he said he'd be back by july
i nodded tried not to cry 
then that was that
we said goodbye

the next day mickey hopped a train
found new york city in the pouring rain
he met those hustlers at his big brother jake's place
they gave him a nickname
taught him how to make some quick change
barely eighteen and already a 14th street saint
dealing to bowery bums
hustling with backstreet snakes
by january he met angeline out in the cold on st. marks place
she was a pale eyed drag queen runaway
mickey thought he could play her game
she got him back on juice
and together they numbed the pain

they stayed up at that old hotel for seven days
changed their names
he put her blood in his veins
they promised they'd never leave that place

angeline said she forgot her daddy's face
and the letters tattooed on her back spelled HATE
she came from the sonora bay
she'd escaped the worst kinda of fate

she left home at 15
survived a million miles of bad road and broken dreams
found midnight streets
bad men
dogs in heat
fucked everyone of em just so she could eat

i could love u forever she said
mickey and her were lying in bed
mickey looked up at the ceiling light
thought of death
then laid his head on her chest

they started coming down as the sun came out
nothing worse than sunlight shining on two kids strung out
after all drugs have run out

so they waited for the night then hit the street
met mickey's brother jake on brighton beach
jake looked at angeline
asked mickey what he was doin with a whore
then set his baby brother up for that bad score

three hours later mickey was knocking on the devil's door
wide-eyed
veins pounding
all he could think of was junk and how he could get more
then the cops rushed him
bashed his head hard on the floor
he couldn't help wondering what he'd left home for

mickey spent one month locked in that cell on canal street
shivering on the concrete.
grinding his teeth
nightmares of brighton beach
and where angeline was gonna sleep

31 nights in that tomb
31 nightmares in the devil's womb
thoughts angeline
their old hotel room
three words in his head: see you soon

when he got out he ran straight to st. marks place
found angeline barely alive
he promised her they'd escape
he told her to meet him at midnight on 42nd and 8th
they'd catch that late night train to that somewhere place

angeline was shaking
crying
begging him to stay
but mickey was long gone
off to jake's place
his granddad taught him to put his enemies in shallow graves
his mom told him to look the other way
but this was blood on blood so mickey had to do it his way

he dragged his knife across jake's face
told him he had no right to wear their father's name
then he left him there to bleed out
whispered this is your fate

he took angeline back to that texas valley
held her hand
promised one day he'd show her cali

they'd run circles around a new earth
he'd be the man she deserved

no surrender
no retreat
mickey would cry in his sleep
and when him and angeline found the beach he told her:
i am my fathers seed
in the dirt he planted me
and i grew up into this devil tree
now i just want you to cut me down
and save what's left of me

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from The Devil Tree EP, released July 7, 2013
words and voice by fossil

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