[Intro]

Been lonesome two years since she disappeared

I'm at the park where she was last seen

A vast green clearing

Wrapped up in maple trees

Spilling the morning rain from their leaves

I used to walk here with a girl

Seventeen at the time

Mistress of seventeen smiles sublime

With flaming locks of red in autumn

And burning locks of orange in the summertime

We were solemn and awkward

That last night together

She laid by my side

Staring into starless skies

Black as fallen angel feathers

I stared into the forest

Pretending not to see the hangmen

She was hiding in her eyes of serpent green

[Verse 1]

She said there was another

I refused to believe her

I thought we'd kiss

'Till our tongues tied together

I thought we'd kiss

'Till our tongues tied together

All my loving memories

Became scenes of frenzied slaughter

My hands became cruel talons

As they moved to destroy her

[Verse 2]

Her neck broke like a toy

In a careless child's grip

My tears rained down

Into dead eyes

And splashed upon

Her lifeless lips

I put her in the ground

Like a flower

I put her in the ground

Like a flower

I put her in the ground

Like a flower

[Interlude]

Here I am standing

In that same spot today

Where my angel's empty shell last laid

And as my tears began

To well up once more

I see a path into the tree line

That I'd never seen before

I follow it down into a ravine

Find a hole in the earth

Framed in the roots of a birch tree

Subtle echoes of her voice

Speaking words I've never heard

But the way she hissed her "s"'s

I knew it had to be her

I smell honeysuckle then opium

Two of her signature scents

I pull aside all the thistles and vines

And mesmerized I make my descent

As I crawl further inside the light slowly dies

And the dirt begins to feel like her skin

I tremble

As I drag my fingers down the walls

Caressing her sweet flesh again

[Verse 3]

I'm slipping downwards

Trying so hard not to fall

Slipping on the blood

That's seeping from the walls

Then suddenly I'm surrounded

By a thousand of her eyes

Bathing the tunnel in a strange green light

The eyes show me pictures

Like ghostly television screens

All her thrashing final struggles

And her ravaged corpse serene

The tunnel is closing behind me

Pressing me further and further down

I'm being swallowed by her earth

And consumed by her ground

[Bridge]

The end is moving into sight

I gasp and I scream

As I see her lovely mouth

Five times the size of me

Her lips curl into a grin

Around her crooked gnashing teeth

I'm pulverized and devoured

In the jaws of a girl seventeen