Duppy

[Verse 1: billy woods]

Woke to blood on the gate

Witchcraft whispered by maids

The fear under the mask, my father’s face ashen

Hands grasping held us back

We were kids laughing

A few months later the hearse had him

Graveside

Women clutch white napkins

Black magic

Rumors it wasn’t no accident

State funeral/uniforms and acronyms

Eat with the dead pour strong spirits

We Africans

Yeah, me and my sister

We never really laughed again

It’s obeah we come for

And paid good money

Last weapon of the poor

For this children went hungry

Blood on the door

Buried charms

Paw of monkey

Macbeth palms

Dry-eyed in the Beloved Country

Burglar alarm

Reach for the heat

Find nothing

Die quietly in your sleep

They still say your wife did something

Upon your house a pox

A fortnight, body in a box

Don’t believe me, just watch

[Chorus: E L U C I D]

I see fire in a dead man's eyes

I see fire in a a dead man's eyes

I see fire in a a dead man's eyes

I see fire in a a dead man's eyes

[Verse 2: E L U C I D]

Once upon a lynching

Rank fumes of incense

Root workers herb mixing

Graveyard dirt pinching

Intention imprint

Fragrant oils holy waters

Sacrifice for those who fell before us

Retreat to the forest where the moon don’t shine

And the sun barely sweeps the floor

Four corners

Crude shrines

Brick dust outlines

Marooned

Psychic ties

Humbly we commune

Perfumed resin

Laws of attraction

Bats blood

Black arts

Conjure man incantations

Fireside divination

Don’t forget to feed the loas

When the spirit leads

Tell my horse ill ride sidesaddle

Star charts and dream books

Papa la bas live from the botanica

All white attire with a mugwort amulet

Third eye pierce

Geode chevron amethyst

Nature my cathedral

Backwater crossroads talisman

Gypsy woman with a fever vision

Destiny altered in this land of the living

Elders still whisper

Listen in the stillness

[Chorus: E L U C I D]

I see fire in a a dead man's eyes

I see fire in a a dead man's eyes

I see fire in a a dead man's eyes

I see fire in a a dead man's eyes