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Inspired by Tales of the Dead (2010) - www.imdb.com/title/tt1723656/

No Budget Nightmares Episode: www.nobudgetpodcast.com/talesofthedead/

The movie was an anthology movie...so this is an anthology song in multiple parts!

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CHORUS:

Let's sit around the hookah cause we have some yarns to tell
It's All Hallows Eve so let's raise a little hell
I'll show you mine if you show me yours, there's scary times ahead
It's time to spend an evening watching Tales of the Dead

ACT 1:

I'm feeling far to empty
The way to feel more complete
Is to remove a limb now
Some fingers, hands or my feet
My digits do depress me
My members make me feel sad
So please just hack the off now
Hack them off now
Hack them off

I see a monster in the mirror
I can't figure out how I can make myself clearer

So screw off with your rules now
I don't care about the board
It's time to slice and dice me
I believe that less is more

ACT 2:

I know you need me to help you out
This house can't stand if I laze about
He's gone, and now I'm man of the house

My dreams, my needs won't just go away
I can't fill the hole with a job or pay
He's gone, he left and now I decay

You tell me monsters don't exist
But what I see I can't deny
I know what I've seen and I can't resist

Do you know what happens when you cry wolf?
Wolves cry
Wolves cry

ACT 3:

Don't be so almighty
Leather whips excite me
I have sent my letter
You think you know better

You are chasing shadows and it's going nowhere fast
You are running circles back in time into your past
You are getting tired now and I will outlast

I have handed down your sentence
I will make you pay your penance

ACT 4:

Back in time four hundred years
Three witches had a town in fear
Their lives were ended here
But not before some people overhear

A curse upon this street
That torments all who lay their feet
Their scorn won't be complete
Due to the judgement and deceit

Take me home, I am done
Walking Cromwell Street
I'm alone, they have won
Walking Cromwell Street
Take me home, I am done
Walking Cromwell Street
I'm alone, they have won
Walking Cromwell Street

DENOUEMENT:

So four of us have shared our stories, one is left to hear
And then we can collect the new ones to celebrate next year
So long as we aren't snuffed out by the killer on the loose
The one who cuts the power before stringing up the noose

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from B​-​Folk Volume 1: No Budget Nightmares, released July 17, 2014

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Roo Toronto, Ontario

Roo is a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter from Toronto, Ontario. From pretty songs to f'd up tracks inspired by low-budget films (B-Folk).

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