"The Black Cat Came Back" lyrics
(feat. Ash Tell Em)
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
And it came right back... and it came right back!
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
Used to love all creatures... now the silence talks
Pluto's eye still glows as he rots behind the clocks
Yeah, I had peace once and a home full of light
'Til the bottle bit deeper every single night
My wife and love turned brittle, rage got quick
My mind cracked open like an old red brick
That cat, my friend, sleeping curled up by my drink
'Til my hand learned rage and I forgot how to think
Bottle to my lip and the devil in bloom
Violence grew legs and it walked through the room
Pluto stared at me with that eye too wide
Like it knew my shame and where it tried to hide
Yeah that cunning kitty knew, his eyes too wise
Followed me room to room, like he saw through the lies
I stabbed him in the eye, then I cut him again
Hung his body like my guilt up in the cellar den
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
Perverse, possessed, and tightly profane
He twitched in the shadows bleeding like a severed vein
Yeah, I hung that cat... but he choked me back!
One rope, two ghosts, in the darkness as he laughed
That's when the house burned down (down!), and guilt ran deep
Because flames wrote poems no soul should have to see
But there on the brick, where the smoke still wept
Was a shape in the soot where that feline slept
The insurance paid out, found a new spot via Zillow
But the new house had a tiny fellow lurking like Willow
Blind in one eye, he stared just the same
The black cat came back, no tag, no name
I fed it out of guilt... but the fear fed me
It crept like mycelium through a fallen tree
Each step, each slumber, each sorrowed sigh
A thread pulled taut 'neath a curse drawn nigh
My wife saw me snap, knew what was coming next
She screamed as the blade, dug deep into her neck
The cat cried too, both trapped in that room
One blow for the guilt, one sealed in her tomb
Yeah, rage took the wheel as I swung that axe
And buried the truth beneath the floorboard cracks
That's why I had to brick her up, right behind the wall
With that mortar of madness, I plastered my own fall
But sin don't sleep when the guilty still cries
And that cat sang out like a warlock's sigh
The cops heard the kitty... first soft, then louder
A sound from the wall... behind the dust and the powder
They tore through the drywall, cold silence was blown
And there she stood dead, plaster skin like stone
But no one expected what sat on her dome
Perched atop her skull... my feline curse had come home!
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
Nine lives cry, from the smoke and flame
Nine lives cry, and they call my name
Nine lives cry, can't drown in gin
Nine lives cry, expose my sin
Nine lives screamed, from behind that stone
Nine lives screamed, but I'm not alone
Nine lives screamed, the cops all stayed
Nine lives screamed... now I'm betrayed!
(I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!)
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
And it came right back... and it came right back!
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
Used to love all creatures... now the silence talks
Pluto's eye still glows as he rots behind the clocks
Yeah, I had peace once and a home full of light
'Til the bottle bit deeper every single night
My wife and love turned brittle, rage got quick
My mind cracked open like an old red brick
That cat, my friend, sleeping curled up by my drink
'Til my hand learned rage and I forgot how to think
Bottle to my lip and the devil in bloom
Violence grew legs and it walked through the room
Pluto stared at me with that eye too wide
Like it knew my shame and where it tried to hide
Yeah that cunning kitty knew, his eyes too wise
Followed me room to room, like he saw through the lies
I stabbed him in the eye, then I cut him again
Hung his body like my guilt up in the cellar den
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
Perverse, possessed, and tightly profane
He twitched in the shadows bleeding like a severed vein
Yeah, I hung that cat... but he choked me back!
One rope, two ghosts, in the darkness as he laughed
That's when the house burned down (down!), and guilt ran deep
Because flames wrote poems no soul should have to see
But there on the brick, where the smoke still wept
Was a shape in the soot where that feline slept
The insurance paid out, found a new spot via Zillow
But the new house had a tiny fellow lurking like Willow
Blind in one eye, he stared just the same
The black cat came back, no tag, no name
I fed it out of guilt... but the fear fed me
It crept like mycelium through a fallen tree
Each step, each slumber, each sorrowed sigh
A thread pulled taut 'neath a curse drawn nigh
My wife saw me snap, knew what was coming next
She screamed as the blade, dug deep into her neck
The cat cried too, both trapped in that room
One blow for the guilt, one sealed in her tomb
Yeah, rage took the wheel as I swung that axe
And buried the truth beneath the floorboard cracks
That's why I had to brick her up, right behind the wall
With that mortar of madness, I plastered my own fall
But sin don't sleep when the guilty still cries
And that cat sang out like a warlock's sigh
The cops heard the kitty... first soft, then louder
A sound from the wall... behind the dust and the powder
They tore through the drywall, cold silence was blown
And there she stood dead, plaster skin like stone
But no one expected what sat on her dome
Perched atop her skull... my feline curse had come home!
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!
Nine lives cry, from the smoke and flame
Nine lives cry, and they call my name
Nine lives cry, can't drown in gin
Nine lives cry, expose my sin
Nine lives screamed, from behind that stone
Nine lives screamed, but I'm not alone
Nine lives screamed, the cops all stayed
Nine lives screamed... now I'm betrayed!
(I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat, what's wrong with that?
I hung that cat, I hung that cat!
I hung that cat... and it came right back!)
