WELCOME TO MY HELL By John Williams Tick tock Tick tock Goes the old Mahogany Grandfather clock Bing Its one o’clock in the morning I hear it chime From the living room Pictures of my life Adorn the walls And my shadow Drapes across the body Of my wife Its two o’clock My hands are red With my loved ones blood The knife Is laying dormant On the floor Next to her Its three o'clock The sheets are bundled up Then burnt to ashes I pick up the knife Slit my wrists Then cover them With bandages Its four o'clock The graves are still fresh In the garden Out back Mud marks my steps 23 in all As I killed my wife Its five o'clock And I prepare the water In the bathroom I let the room fill with steam I place my bandaged wrists Under the scalding hot water Reminding me that I'm still alive Its six o'clock My skin is clean But my soul never will be I gaze out the window At my wife’s grave My daughter wakes up And cries for her mother Best not keep family apart Its seven o'clock My daughter is dead Her once blond hair Now is red I sit upon her bed And gaze at her walls One picture catches my eye A picture she had drawn of her family I'm not there Another man Has taken my place Its eight o'clock And I prepare to go to church To confesses my sins “Oh father who art in heaven Damn me if you will But I just sent two angels Up to live with you Watch over them Like I know you will Amen” Its nine o'clock And I’m parked out side The church Waiting for the people to clear out So I can accomplish my evil deed I enter Knife in hand I approach the Adulterine cockroach At the pew Its ten o'clock The priest is dead Hung from the cross Of the saint whom he worshiped The alter is red Stained with the blood Of a false priest Man of the cloth on Sunday Wife stealer every other day Its eleven o'clock Nearing the end I prepare my last supper Of pasta and beer I drink to God And I drink to the Devil Each will do with me What they will Its twelve o'clock Sirens fill the noon time air The officers find me Sitting at my chair Empty plate before me The knife run right threw me I am buried In the cemetery An unmarked stone Marks that I'm there Then it all starts over again Welcome to my hell -End-
