Run Through Everything

Instrumental Intro

(Eerie swampland ambience, distant thunder, then the dark riff slams in)

Verse 1

Smoke hangs low over the cypress line

Rifle crack ringing down the valley line

Something moved past the fence post

I swear I saw it twice

Thunder rolling like a warning bell

Every shadow got a story to tell

Can't trust a face I know

Can't trust the moonlight

Pre-Chorus

Keep your eyes on the ridge

Keep your hand on the iron

Something's breathing in the reeds

And it's closing in behind you

Chorus

Through the jungle

Through the mud and the fire

Through the jungle

Running low on desire

Can't slow down now

Can't slow down now

Post-Chorus

Run run run

Run run run

Verse 2

Figures standing where the road bends low

Torches flickering where the black weeds grow

Wild dogs howling at the wire

Horses kicking at the stall

Barbed wire caught my sleeve at dawn

Firelight dancing on the broken lawn

I keep moving through the rain

Keep my back against the wall

Pre-Chorus

Keep your eyes on the ridge

Keep your hand on the iron

Something's breathing in the reeds

And it's closing in behind you

Chorus

Through the jungle

Through the mud and the fire

Through the jungle

Running low on desire

Can't slow down now

Can't slow down now

Instrumental Break

(Harmonica howls against slicing guitar fills, bass and drums barreling underneath)

Bridge

I hear the hounds baying cross the stream

I see the lanterns swinging like a dream

Who's the one who sold me out

Who's the one who pointed south

Every face is a knife in the dark

Every heartbeat leaves its mark

Chorus

Through the jungle

Through the mud and the fire

Through the jungle

Running low on desire

Can't slow down now

Can't slow down now

Post-Chorus

Run run run

Run run run

Outro

(Keep the riff churning, harmonica wailing, then the murky reversed ambience swallows it whole)