The Ballad of Ruby Wilder Lyrics

Album: Colossus

[are you still in there, girlie?

all dressed up with no place to go but down

you are your own destruction

the consequence will find you out somehow

i can’t wait to tear into you

like a predator stalking its prey

we both know only i can save you

but first you must escape]

[are you still in there, girlie?

let’s get you dolled up, it’s your big debut

oh, we’re gonna dance

hard to run in heels, broken and bruised

i can’t wait to tear into you

i’m the fisherman, you’re the fish

there’s the door if you want to run

but here’s the gun if i want to shoot]

(it was her god damn birthday

she was a kid

don’t try to turn this on me

i know what you did

the door was always open

but i couldn’t step through

you made the monster in me

oh, what did i do?)

[count to twenty, i’m coming back for you]

(i must have counted to twenty a thousand times

i am a killer, on trial for my crimes

you are the monster, you turned me into you

but i’ll walk out the door, silent and confused)