The Pine Barrens Night

Verse 1

One year ago on a Friday night

I called my best friend just to pass the time

Pine Barrens came up in the talk

We said let's drive til we lose the clock

Boredom bites when the walls close in

So we rolled out past the county line

Pre-Chorus

Then I saw it sitting in the back

A suitcase zipped up tight and black

I asked him what he had in there

He smiled and said a friend who needed care

Chorus

Annabelle rides in the passenger seat

Annabelle never says a word to me

We drove into the pines that night

And something in my friend wasn't right

Verse 2

I told him pull it over let me out

The trees got thick the road ran out

We'd made it deep in Jersey pine

A dirt road swallowed up the line

I walked on foot through the dark

Then a house rose up like a scar

Pre-Chorus

He came creeping slow behind

Begging me to change my mind

Fear made me climb back in

He said he always knew about the house within

Chorus

Annabelle rides in the passenger seat

Annabelle never says a word to me

We drove into the pines that night

And something in my friend wasn't right

Bridge

He said you're talking to the devil now

I grabbed the wheel and pushed him down

His grip was iron his eyes went cold

I knew that night what I'd been told

Verse 3

I reached back for my sleeping bag

Swung it hard til his body went slack

Drove him to a church down the road

Where Annabelle finally let him go

It was a fight a brutal fight

But I brought my friend CJ back to life

Chorus

Annabelle rides no more with me

Annabelle finally set him free

We drove out of the pines that night

And my best friend came back right

Post-Chorus

(Back to me) back to me

(Back to me) back to me