Agony Wagon Lyrics - Singles - The Legendary Shack Shakers

What evil star burns bright my old flame 

And wilted my rose of Jericho 

Whose glare killed the prayer last parted from her lips 

And lit the path to churchyards untold? 

The pitter and the patter of her dance once whirled away 

The eve like a dream of youthful bloom 

But now the iron clatter of my godforsaken woe 

Echoes ancient tones of shackled doom 

Oh, I'll ride this agony wagon 

Forever to heaven or to hell 

I'll ride this agony wagon 

My bones are damned to roam these rusty rails 

Rusty rails 

Oh, I'll ride this agony wagon 

Forever to heaven or to hell 

I'll ride this agony wagon 

My bones are damned to roam these rusty rails 

Rusty rails 

What unholy saint rakes the devil's lyre 

And dumbs the din of joy bells in my soul 

Who in silent gloom arrives snapping thicket underfoot 

In moonless mist to light my carriage coals? 

So into the shady dank of St. Jude's garden stairs 

East of the sun and west of the moon 

Where her secret crypt of nightshade is shut inside his mind 

Locked tighter than a toddler in a tomb 

Oh, I'll ride this agony wagon 

Forever to heaven or to hell 

I'll ride this agony wagon 

My bones are damned to roam these rusty rails 

Rusty rails