She tore across my heart
Like demon dogs on a whiskey night
Left to bleed a burning want
Blindly rage the howling moon
Demon dogs on a whiskey night
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Haunting tragic mournful sound
Demon dogs on a whiskey night
Scabrous stains of tattered pride
Baleful songs streak ebon sky
Demon dogs on a whiskey night
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Lure of hunter’s wanton pride
Demon dogs on a whiskey night
Imaginings tainted stained belief
Passion’s echoes crusted cold
Demon dogs on a whiskey night
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Rage unerring baits the beast
Demon dogs on a whiskey night
Fangs of white snap promise made
Damned horizon drawing closer
Demon dogs on a whiskey night
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Absent in the blackened field, winking victims star the sky
Lost beneath the speckled heavens, shining beacons just a lie
Turn the page the story empty, wasted words of Jung and Freud
All is lost beneath the velvet, whiskey breath and dog destroyed
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She tore across my heart
Like demon dogs on a whiskey night
Left to bleed a burning want
Blindly rage the howling moon
Demon dogs on a whiskey night
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Demon dogs on a whiskey night
Demon dogs on a whiskey night
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