[The Georgetown Rite] [Verse 1: Female Vocals] Chris films her scenes while the autumn leaves fall, Inside the brick house with the high garden wall. Young Regan stays quiet in her Georgetown room, Unaware of the shadows beginning to bloom. [Pre-Chorus 1: Male Vocals] The bed starts to shake and the floorboards all groan, A power is rising she’s never quite known. [Chorus 1: Male and Female Duet] The darkness is heavy and closing the gate, We struggle to carry the burden of fate. When reason is broken and logic has failed, The truth of the spirit is slowly unveiled. [Verse 2: Male Vocals] Down in the basement she finds an old board, A game for a child that she shouldn’t afford. She speaks to a friend she calls Captain Howdy, The air in the parlor turns heavy and cloudy. [Pre-Chorus 2: Female Vocals] The doctors are baffled and logic is lost, To save her they’ll pay any terrible cost. [Chorus 2: Male and Female Duet] The battle is fought in the silence of night, The soul is a flame in a desperate fight. We tremble in fear of the shadows we see, And wait for the moment the heart can be free. [Instrumental Break - Atmospheric Synthesizer Solo] [Bridge 1: Male and Female Duet] The medical experts find nothing is wrong, Though doctors insist that the girl must be strong. The words 'Help Me' rise in a welt on her skin, A plea from the spirit that’s trapped deep within. [Verse 3: Female Vocals] The bedroom is frozen and mist fills the air, While Karras arrives with a burden of prayer. The demon Pazuzu laughs loud at his doubt, As Chris watches Merrin try to cast the thing out. [Pre-Chorus 3: Male Vocals] The silver crucifix clutched in a grip, As sanity starts on its terrifying slip. [Chorus 3: Male and Female Duet] We give what we have just to keep them from harm, The strength of a spirit is more than an arm. The price of the rescue is paid with a life, To end all the hunger and carry the strife. [Bridge 2: Male and Female Duet] Old Merrin is gone as the ritual ends, But Karras steps forward to make his amends. He takes in the evil and jumps through the glass, To let the great shadow of agony pass. [Verse 4: Male Vocals] He falls down the M Street steps, narrow and steep, A promise of safety he’s chosen to keep. His body lies broken on cold paving stones, While Regan is healed in her marrow and bones. [Pre-Chorus 4: Female Vocals] The silence returns to the house on the hill, The morning is finally peaceful and still. [Final Chorus: Male and Female Duet] The greatest of love is the will to remain, To carry the weight and to suffer the pain. We find our salvation in making them whole, By giving the light of a heart and a soul. [Outro: Male and Female Duet] The stairs wait in shadow, the struggle is done, The battle for heaven is finally won. The Georgetown brick house is now empty and gray, The mother and daughter move slowly away.
