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Bible, Candle and a Skull

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Bastard son of the carnival strongman Taught to fear the white rat by his great granddad Still, he ain't no slouch at cramming them in With a bullhorn in his hand Formaldehyde's half empty, but he tops it off With a bottle of burglar's wine They beat a blind man to death with his own damn cane On a jam-packed Saturday night He's the devil's understudy You know he's always ready To fill in, in a pinch Well, he'll try to be your buddy Or maybe be your honey Baby, just grab a little inch He says the grinding wheel always gets the grease Though the blade is bloody and dull But your trouble flies with the greatest of ease With a bible, a candle, and skull That's a bible, a candle and skull Well, equal parts floozy and flim-flam She's the ugly one in her one-woman band He ain't mister right, no, he's mister right now He's my presidential confidence man Kissing hands and shaking babies From Herkimer to Hades, with his third-place trophy bride Planting seeds of deception like a kudzu weed Hold it out, drop it, run for your life Well, even a two-headed fetus ought to have a good home Not in the trunk where jumper cables belong But hey, that's just the kind of thing that's gonna piss you off Resist his bible, candle and skull His bible, candle and skull Well, the candle's snuffed, and there's nothing left In the spotlight but bugs and bats He took his one-drop rule complimentary mule Down a dirt road to Arkansas To his hometown of hope at last