[TITLE: HEADLESS CHICKENS] [INTRO — SWAMP AMBIENCE + DISTANT DRUMS] [SFX: swamp insects] [SFX: distant thunder] [SFX: slow tribal drums] [SFX: chains rattling softly] [Whispered] Don’t miss the signs... Don’t miss the signs... [BACKGROUND CHANTS] (Headless chickens...) (Run...) (Run...) (Run...) [VERSE 1] Headless chickens running Through the middle of the moonlight Blood upon the altar Make the whole room move right Candles by the river Wax melting into dirt Every generation Carry blessings and a curse Black magic in the bayou Smoke hanging from the trees Something moving slowly Through the water by my knees Old women on the porch Speaking tongues I never knew Every word sounding Like a warning coming true Chicken feet hanging From the doorway by the bones Static in the darkness Like the swamp alive and grown Crossroads at midnight Devils making bargains Shadow people dancing At the edge of all the darkness [SFX: raven screech] [SFX: thunder crack] [BACKGROUND WHISPERS] (Bargains...) (Bargains...) (The swamp alive...) (The swamp alive...) [PRE-CHORUS] Every curse got roots Every prayer got scars Some things follow bloodlines No matter where you are Every road gets darker Every fire burn low Everybody laughing Till the spirits finally show [CHOIR BUILD] Ohhhhhhhh... Ahhhhhhhh... Don’t miss the signs... Don’t miss the signs... [HOOK] Headless chickens running Through the middle of the moonlight Voodoo in the swamp While the graveyard sing hymns all night Headless chickens running Blood circles in the dirt Something in the darkness Keep reminding what we worth [POST-HOOK CHANTS] (Run...) (Run...) (The graveyard singing...) (The graveyard singing...) [VERSE 2] Tarot cards scattered On the table by the smoke Palm reader laughing Like she already know Goat skull centerpiece Ash circles in the dirt Every family got secrets Every blessing got a curse Snakes shedding skin Under blood-red skies Ghost voices echo Through abandoned church lights Black dogs by the roadside Eyes glowing through the rain Everybody say they seen them Right before the pain I saw candles floating Down the river in the dark Every flame looking Like somebody’s broken heart A preacher in the distance Holding rattlesnakes alive Screaming about judgment While the thunder split the sky [BACKGROUND WHISPERS] (Split the sky...) (Split the sky...) [PRE-CHORUS] The swamp remembers names The river remembers cries Some things buried deep Still surviving underneath alive Every omen got meaning Every silence got breath Sometimes what we fear most Already crossed through death [HOOK — BIGGER] Headless chickens running Through the middle of the moonlight Blood upon the altar Make the whole room move right Headless chickens running Voodoo in the swamp tonight Something in the darkness Keep on calling us inside [CHOIR LAYER] (Inside...) (Inside...) (Don’t miss the signs...) (Don’t miss the signs...) [BRIDGE — ATMOSPHERIC BREAKDOWN] [SFX: heavy rain] [SFX: low bass pulses] [SFX: distorted choir] I heard drums in the distance Past the cypress trees Something in the rhythm Brought the dead up through the reeds Children standing silent Barefoot in the mud Watching old men dancing With ash painted in their blood Somebody started crying When the bonfire rose high Like the swamp itself awakened Underneath the moonlit sky The fire kept breathing The shadows moved strange Everybody left different Nobody stayed the same [BACKGROUND CHOIR] (Nobody stayed the same...) (Nobody stayed the same...) [VERSE 3] Rust hanging from the fences Spanish moss from the trees Every road through the bayou Felt alive underneath I walked beside the water Heard whispers in the reeds Like forgotten generations Still speaking through the breeze A woman dressed in white Stood floating in the rain Wouldn’t show her face Wouldn’t say her name The deeper that I wandered The quieter it got Till the only thing remaining Was the rhythm of my thoughts Then the drums stopped suddenly Everything went still Even all the insects Disappeared beyond the hill Something moved behind me But I never turned around Some fears get stronger If you give them shape or sound [FINAL HOOK — MASSIVE] Headless chickens running Through the middle of the moonlight Voodoo in the swamp While the graveyard sing hymns all night Headless chickens running Blood circles in the dirt Every curse and every prayer Show us what we really worth Headless chickens running Shadows dancing in the rain Everybody enter different Nobody leave the same [OUTRO] [Whispered] Don’t miss the signs... The swamp still alive... [BACKGROUND CHOIR FADING] (Run...) (Run...) (Run...) [SFX: swamp ambience fading into distant thunder]
