Mr. Cox

Verse 1

Mr. Cox keeps a calendar

One red circle a year

Fifteen autumns, fifteen names

Nobody finds them here

Grade book in the top drawer

Chalk dust on his hands

Preyed on Jenny Marlow

Single mother three kids planned

Chorus

Wrong place, wrong time, wrong life to take

Blood on the bell, blood on the grade

Wrong place, wrong time, devil's awake

Mr. Cox, Mr. Cox, another clean getaway

Verse 2

Dragged her to the basement

Duct tape and a drip

Waited twelve full months for this

A slow and steady slip

Jenny's eyes were rolling back

When the doorbell rang

Two silhouettes with pistols drawn

The whole damn plan un-hinged

Pre-Chorus

They didn't know what crawled beneath

The pressed shirt and the tie

They didn't know the monster

They just wanted him to die

Chorus

Wrong place, wrong time, wrong life to take

Blood on the bell, blood on the grade

Wrong place, wrong time, devil's awake

Mr. Cox, Mr. Cox, another clean getaway

Bridge

(Masked and angry, young and dumb)

(They don't know what they've become)

Danny failed first period

Marcus got detention

They got Mr. Cox on his knees

And changed the whole direction

Verse 3

"Look who we caught, the big bad teacher"

Danny laughed and spat

"Gonna make you cry like you made us cry

How do you like that?"

Mr. Cox just smiled real slow

And pointed at the floor

"See that woman? She's my wife

She walked right through that door"

Pre-Chorus

They bought the lie, they bought the frame

They never checked the chains

They bought the lie, they bought the name

And never felt the rain

Chorus

Wrong place, wrong time, wrong life to take

Blood on the bell, blood on the grade

Wrong place, wrong time, devil's awake

Mr. Cox, Mr. Cox, another clean getaway

Breakdown

(One, two, three, four)

(She's dead on the floor)

(One, two, three, four)

(They're knocking at the door)

Chorus

Wrong place, wrong time, wrong life to take

Cuffs on the students, blood on the grade

Wrong place, wrong time, devil's awake

Mr. Cox walks home while the sirens fade