Midnight Pine Songtext
von Modern Vampires

He awoke in woods in the cold of the night
He′d reach out for his child sleeping by his side
Nights beyond darkness and days more grey than before
Like the onset of glaucoma through the peep hole of a door

A beam of light hit them hard in their eyes
Uncle Charlie and his men had caught them by surprise
Dogs bolting and crazed for the fear and the thirst
Their barking cracking through the stones of the Earth

His head hit the dirt then a boot on his throat
The men yanked the ropes and put the dogs in a choke
A figure gripped the boy and dragged him into the brush and the trees
Tearing out the filler from his jacket sleeve
In the midnight pines
In the midnight pines


Half a dozen men round a circle on his father
The boy heard the blows to his head harder and harder
Sucking on the last of the cool night air
His breathe it laboured in a hopeless despair

He spluttered and wheezed on a bed of leaves
He mustered what he could and begged brother Charlie please
Charlie's boot on his throat just the wind and the pine
Snapped right through the bone to the vine
In the midnight pine
In the midnight pine

There was no account no mark for his life
They dug an unmarked grave too short for his height
His body just slumped like a drunk in a doorway
Charlie took the boy and said I′m sorry for what you saw

Some months later in Ashfield juvenile
For beating a boy all bloody and wild
Three years later a young funny looking man
He stepped out of Ashfield with a letter in his hand


His uncle had written him and told him where to come
For the answers to what his father had done
In the midnight pine
In the midnight pine.