Down by the Torchlight

Swampin' on down Atchafalaya Way

A man can get lost, he'll be gone for days

Well, I can get lost

Just a-sittin' here dreamin' 'bout home, mmm...

Well, last time I was down there, I was stoned so deep

Oh, Jack, he got busted and I watched him bleed

The law's so out of order

And they'll beat you right down to the bone, mmm, yeah

I wanna hear it rain

In the dead of the night

I wanna feel the strange

Down by the torchlight

My sister got married, makes a damn good wife

He beats her when he drinks, now it's her way of life

There's no room left in the trailer

But there's one on the way, mm-hmm

When I look back, now I don't understand

How the times can pass by when your so out of hand

All my friends are all left in the jungle just wastin' away

I wanna hear it rain

In the dead of the night

I wanna feel the strange

Down by the torchlight

Raise the baptized with a mock of an old rhyme

Stories untold down by the torchlight

I wanna hear it rain

In the dead of the night

I wanna feel the strange

Down by the torchlight

Down by the torchlight

By the torchlight

Down, down, down by the torchlight

Down, down, down by the torchlight