Midnight at the Haunted Crossroads

I took the long road under a blood red sky

Headlights shaking through the pines

The wind was howling like a warning cry

As the moon climbed silver signs

Then I saw the lanterns in the dead-end haze

Burning where the blacktop breaks

A thousand whispers came alive at night

Calling out my name from the graves

At the cursed crossroads, I met the ghosts

They raised their hands, they knew me most

Cold-eyed shadows in a circle of smoke

Singing my sins in a thunderous choke

At the cursed crossroads

No one goes home

When the midnight bell starts ringing alone

A widow with no face said

Drive or turn around

A soldier left with broken teeth

A child in chains kept circling the ground

And the earth split wide beneath

I gripped the wheel but the engine sighed like it wanted out of my chest

Every mile behind me turned to ash

Every mile ahead to rest

At the cursed crossroads, I met the ghost

They raised their hands, they knew me most

Cold-eyed shadows in a circle of smoke

Singing my sins in a thunderous choke

At the cursed crossroads, no one goes home

When the midnight bell starts ringing alone

Voices rise in the barren night

Hear the road, hear the road, don't fight

Dead came close with their fire-lit eyes

And the sky tore open wide

At the cursed crossroads, I met the ghost

They took my fear and they fed it slow

Now I'm a shadow where the lost wind blows

Forever bound where the dead things grow

At the Cursed Crossroads, hear my name

Rattling bones in the static rain

At the Cursed Crossroads I became

One more ghost on the midnight plane