God’s Country (Demo 3)

Verse One (Ethel Cain):

There’s a hole in the wall where you keep your head
Lost it one too many times
Say your mama’s funeral’s next Sunday
What’d your daddy go and do now?
No matter just how hard they cry, a dog is a dog is a dog is a dog is a dog and they still get hungry
And they look hungry
So once you’re dead, who’ll be there to let them out

Interlude (Ethel Cain):

You don’t need me like you think you do
And I can’t pull you through
You just need to feel like someone wants you
And I promise you, they do

Verse Two (Ethel Cain):

You are young, you are young, you’re too young, and you cry til you’re soaking wet
You're not your father but you wear his clothes to bed
Going over something he said
All American
No good, worn through, and on fire
And they’ll chew holes in whatever’s left
Til there’s nothing left

Chorus (Ethel Cain):

You’ve tasted love and it tasted sweet
You drank the blood and bit the meat
If you hold it and it cries
You should let it go
I’m trying hard so baby please
Don’t sink in me with your dog teeth
Please, I’m already on my knees
(In God’s country)

Verse Three (Ethel Cain):

You smell like gasoline
Trailing the death of me when you come home
Then you’re gone
Stained like the memories
Stuffed under the car seat
Behind me
I’m not coming back
I’m not coming back again
You ruined all of that
I always told you that
Your white horse can’t hold your hand
So it passed you running again and again

Verse Four (Wicca Phase Springs Eternal):

Drive the pathway through the pines
And the moors of mystery
Welcome conflict and let crisis come and shake the ground beneath
And the family secret hiding
In the farmhouse down the street
Rushes open door on your front porch
And shadows me
Taken and entirely I embraced the bonny beast
Over hills and highlands we rode hard the passing peaks
Danger liked the virgin wife beside me she would sleep
Cherry was her dad’s truck that she crashed at seventeen
I kneel before what temper broke the branches on the beach
And those thrilling highs and southern nights are always out of reach

Pre-Chorus (Wicca Phase Springs Eternal):

I learned a lesson
I need to pray and hard
Final hours
Take care of me God

Chorus (Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, Both):

You’ve tasted love and it tasted sweet
You drank the blood and bit the meat
If you hold it and it cries, you should let it go
I'm trying hard so baby please
Don’t sink in me with your dog teeth
Please, I’m already on my knees
(In God’s country)

Bridge (Ethel Cain, Both):

Don’t sink in me with your dog teeth
Don’t sink in me with your dog teeth
Taken and entirely I embraced the bonny beast (Don’t sink in me)
Over hills and highlands we rode hard the passing peaks (Don’t sink in me)
Danger liked the virgin wife beside me she would sleep (Don’t sink in me)
Cherry was her dad’s truck that she crashed at seventeen (Don’t sink in me)
I kneel before what temper broke the branches on the beach (Don’t sink in me)
And those thrilling highs and southern nights are always
Always

Chorus (Ethel Cain, Both):

You’ve tasted love and it tasted sweet
You drank the blood and bit the meat
If you hold it and it cries, you should let it go
I'm trying hard so baby, please
Don’t sink in me with your dog teeth
God, I’m already on my knees
In God’s country