the lake house (with Don Franke and Eric Mantei)

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i know i’ve done some pretty bad things, but this time i swear you got an innocent man…

that night she walked on right up to me, said she’d like to talk just a little bit more. her old man could get pretty jealous, so we hatched a little plan; she said she’d meet me by the old lake house out in those woods north side of town

i never heard those old stories about they say happened there before, so i picked my way on down that dark trail to the shores of that stinking pool. that old shack gave me the fear when i pushed the door and spoke her name. so i sat outside and sipped my beer while i waited till she came.

…i went down to that lake house she said that she would meet me there…

i watched the moon sail through those pale clouds
until i couldn’t wait no more. thats when i heard a kinda scratching other side of that rotten creaking door.

i looked in and i struck a flame, looked down and saw the spreading stain. there she was danglin from the roof… something else was up there too…

(Collaboration made via kompoz.com. Includes keyboards by Don Franke and additional vocals by Eric Mantei. Dodgy attempts at slide guitar and theremin by me:)