Stingy Jack

Intro

("Live from the underground...

You're tuned into midnight FM, where the shadows move.

Tonight, we're digging up the roots.

Forget what you think you know about October thirty-first.

This one's for the wanderers...")

(Yeah! (Yeah!)

Turn the headphones up!

They think it's just a game, man. (They don't know!)

They think it's just a pumpkin! (Nah!)

Two thousand years of terror.

Let's talk about the pact.)

Verse 1: The Dark Pact

Yeah, turn the lights down, let the bass line creep,

While the rest of the world is fast asleep.

We talking 'bout a man with a blackened heart,

Stingy Jack, yeah, he played the part.

A master deceiver in a local bar,

Met the Devil himself under a falling star.

Jack didn't want to pay for the drinks he downed,

So he looked at the prince of the underground.

Said, "Turn to a coin, let me clear the tab,"

But Jack snatched the coin in a sudden grab!

Shoved the Devil in his pocket next to a silver cross,

Yeah, he trapped pure evil, showed him who was boss.

Forced a demonic pact just to buy some time:

"Don't claim my soul for this life of crime."

Chorus

(Yeah! Turn it up!)

He's walking with the fire, fire! (Fire!)

Got that hellfire spark!

Stingy Jack out here running through the dark! (Let's go!)

No Heaven, no Hell, trapped under the spell,

Hear the tolling of the bell, yeah, the urban legend tell! (Facts!)

Carve the face, watch it glow, glow, glow! (Watch it glow!)

Keep the monster on the porch or he's pulling up below!

Yeah, Jack-o'-lantern, running from the curse,

Better fill the bag up before it gets worse! (Skrrt!).

Verse 2: The Rejection & The Ember

Time ran out and his body turned cold,

But his soul was too rotten for the streets of gold.

Heaven slammed the gates, said "You can't come in,"

Too much malice and deceit, too much heavy sin.

So he descended to the pit where the demons dwell,

But the Devil stood blocking at the gates of Hell!

Said, "I kept my promise, you can't step through,

I don't want your soul, I am done with you!"

Left stranded in the gray abyss all alone,

Jack screamed in the dark where the spirits moan.

The Devil laughed loud, threw a single coal,

A burning piece of hellfire to scorch his soul.

Jack took a white turnip, dense and old,

Hollowed out the root just to catch the hold.

Trapped the demonic ember right inside the skin,

And that's where the urban legend did begin.

Bridge: The Nightmare Ward

Look at the window, look at the door,

This isn't for fashion, this is spiritual war.

You think it's a pumpkin, smiling and bright?

Nah, this was a weapon to survive the night.

Carving a monster to fight off the dead,

Living in terror, living in dread...

Chorus

Got that hellfire spark!

Stingy Jack out here running through the dark! (Let's go!)

No Heaven, no Hell, trapped under the spell,

Hear the tolling of the bell, yeah, the urban legend tell! (Facts!)

Carve the face, watch it glow, glow, glow! (Watch it glow!)

Keep the monster on the porch or he's pulling up below!

Yeah, Jack-o'-lantern, running from the curse,

Better fill the bag up before it gets worse! (Skrrt!).

Outro

Yeah. Watch the flame.

When the pumpkin starts to rot...

That's Jack knocking on your door.

Still looking for a place to rest.

(Sinister whisper) Jack's back.