The Dead Can't Testify

Let the rain fall down, let it fall to the ground

Let the rain fall down to the ground

And the birds don't sing, no, they don't make a sound

When you're six feet underground

Well, they cast me out when the word spread around

That I never sang in the church

And it took one night for the town to decide

I'm afflicted by the curse

And the rain falls down, let it fall to the ground

And the birds don't sing, no, they don't make a sound

So I look to the sky, tell me why, tell me why

Do they all get to live, and I have to die?

So they marched me down to the center of town

With their pitchforks high in the air

I was chained and bound with a blindfold around

So the judge wouldn't catch my stare

And they hung my soul from the gallows pole

But the witch they never found

So to those who don't fit society's mold

Learn to swim or you will drown

And the rain falls down, let it fall to the ground

And the birds don't sing, no, they don't make a sound

So I look to the sky, tell me why, tell me why

Do they all get to live, and I have to die?

And the angels sing, let it shine, let it shine

Dry the teardrops from my eyes

'Cause the dead can't testify

And because I can't take an eye for an eye

In the afterlife I'll haunt you 'til you die

And the rain falls down, let it fall to the ground

Let teardrops hit the ground

And the birds don't sing, no, they don't make a sound

When you're six feet underground

So I look to the sky, tell me why, tell me why

Do they all get to live, and I have to die?

And the angels sing, let it shine, let it shine

Dry the teardrops from my eyes

'Cause the dead can't testify

And because I can't take an eye for an eye

In the afterlife I'll haunt you 'til you die

And the angels sing, let it shine, let it shine

Dry the teardrops from my eyes

'Cause the dead can't testify

And because I can't take an eye for an eye

In the afterlife I'll haunt you 'til you die