BAMBARA - Machete Lyrics

There's a clearing behind her mothers house
The other side of Silver Creek
We drink cheap cherry vodka there late at night
Her dog Lobo at our feet
Yeah, Crystal was younger than me, much tougher
With a dark smile on her lips
She looks so pretty, laughing in my puckered face
When I pulled up her skirt a bit
Lobo took off
She said "You catch that hound of yours"

So I ran through the trees
Chasing sounds, deep into the darkness
Then I fled, took Crystal to her room
Turned off all the lights
I close the curtains to a sick old moon
Said "There's a strange man outside"
He was out there swatting lightning bugs
On his greasy face and body
I could just make out two big pale eyes
Staring through the streaks of glowing green
His pig face grinning at me

The smile fell away
As she said
That I was going crazy
I've seen him too
And I can't take it anymore
I can't take it
Every night I see him in the window
Those big pale eyes

I stole a machete
Hacked up small animals for practice
Even when I found Lobo tied in a knot
No-one believed us

Weeks later, I was patrolling the woods
Red lights flashing through the branches
I dropped the machete, ran to her house
And saw two cops cars and an ambulance
Lightning bugs blowing in the breeze
And I fell to my knees

It's been years now
I moved to the city
To get lost in the trash
Like one of many fruit flies
And I found my wife Claire
So full of life, so wild
With a smile beyond compare
And our first child is kicking from inside her

But sometimes I swear
I look at her face and I see Crystal
Hiding in there
The way her lips pout when she's brushing her hair
And I see her everywhere
I try my best to lose her
How I got lost in bars spilling in the streets
Too drunk to dream
Can't dream or sleep
So to Crystal with her sheets
And pretty knees

Now it seems
Like a violence is a mist
Slowly creeping from the past
And I can't help but feel he's coming back for me
Just last week an old machete
Was found lodged in some young cops gut
Right on our street
Where I could hear him suffering
And I recall a possum still trying to run
Though I cut his head clean off
Same as me I thought
Fleeing home when I knew damn well
He'd never stop
'Cause I saw those eyes
And tonight as I patrol the halls
Checking all the windows
I saw the green glow of a lightning bug

Kissed Claire's sleeping lips
And grabbed my gun
Not gonna run