The Ballad of Resurrection Mary Lyrics

Just walking home I'm all alone and it is pouring

The leafless branches on the trees dig at the moon

Lost in my head after an evening of revelry

Crossing the ancient trails on Archer Avenue

Until that car ravaged my body

They didn't help, why did they leave

Down in this ditch can't move my legs and barely breathing

Staring up into countless stars as life leaves me

Next thing I know I'm in a hole, I'm in the dirt

Under the earth and I'm thinking

No, This ain't right

I claw myself back up into the night

My gown is shining white

And I need to find a ride to get me home, I'm out here all alone

And it's so cold, I feel so cold, why's it so cold

I feel a tugging as I leave the cemetery

I slowly glide beside the road with mounting gloom

I fear the worst until a car pulls up beside me

And drives me far away from Archer Avenue

But as the night approaches morning

Death's hand pulls me back to my grave

I must return to Resurrection Cemetery

And rest in distress for another lonely day

I walk these roads, I dance alone

I am a ghost that can't go home, just stuck here

Doomed to repeat

There ain't no justice here in Justice, Illinois

And where I go you can't follow

Leave a drink for me, the Deathly Dancer

You know where I'll be

Ground seems to breathe, keeps calling me, eternally

And every night I'll go out walking

Or maybe down to the ballroom

A restless spirit who is always doomed to wander

The same old pathways down on Archer Avenue

The ancient trails down on Archer Avenue