[Verse 1: Southern gothic male lead, heavy pounding drums, swampy baritone guitar] Down in Coosa Hollow where the creek runs brown There's a green that comes in summer and it never goes down Took the Pruitt place in June and by July it hit the eaves By the fall you couldn't tell it was a house beneath the leaves Pruitt never came back out and his wife, she never did Nobody went in lookin', y'all, the vine just kept it hid Then the chapel, then the schoolhouse, then the Tolbert double-wide Every house it covered up, the folks were sittin' inside I reckon I'm the last one with a sickle and a will Cut it off my door at sundown, by sunup it's at the sill [Hook: Southern gothic male lead, full band, haunted southern gothic hook] Give it time, it'll grow on you Green up the walls and the windows too Give it time, now you can't get through Hollow keeps everything, it'll keep you too [Verse 2: Southern gothic male lead, low droning bass, swampy baritone guitar] You can hear it in the dark if you hold real still Little creak and little crawl comin' up the hill It don't hurry and it don't rest and it don't care about the heat Lays a tendril on the mailbox like a hand you'll never meet Preacher says it's just a weed they brought in for the soil Says the folks just moved away from the heat and the toil But their trucks are in the yard under blankets made of green And their supper's on the table in the last house I seen Halloween comes cold and clear and I lay the sickle down Walk out yonder in the leaves to see who's still around [Hook: Southern gothic male lead, full band, haunted southern gothic hook] Give it time, it'll grow on you Green up the walls and the windows too Give it time, now you can't get through Hollow keeps everything, it'll keep you too [Bridge: Southern gothic male lead, half-step creep, the bass slides up a half step every two bars like the vine] Green on my sleeves and green on my knees Green to my shoulders and it's growin' through the trees Then I see the Pruitts standin' in their windowpane Wound up in the vine and smilin' through the leaves again Every neighbor that we lost is standin' where they stood Wavin' me on in like they're glad, like it's good Hollow never took 'em, y'all, the hollow kept 'em near And the vine around my ankle says I'm stayin' here [Final Hook: Southern gothic male lead, full band, haunted southern gothic hook, the bass still creeping] Give it time, it'll grow on you Green up the walls and the windows too Give it time, now you can't get through Hollow keeps everything, it'll keep you too [End]
