The Eyes on Bray Road (Beast of Bray Road)

There's a road out past the cornfields where the headlights seem to fail

Where the silence feels like pressure and the wind begins to wail

Folks around here don't talk much, just glance out toward the trees

Where something's watched for decades now, and never comes in peace

They call it just a shadow, or a trick of deer and fog

But the locals leave that stretch alone, and they don't walk their dogs

A hunter swears he saw it once-on two legs tall and wide

With yellow eyes that burned like fire, and teeth it didn't hide

There's eyes on Bray Road

That ain't from any beast we know

Not coyote, not no panther

Not the wolf that hunts alone

It walks like it's remembering

The man it might have been

And it don't care much for mercy

When the night comes rollin' in

A waitress driving home one night swerved to miss a shape

It stood up in her headlights like a man that death remade

With matted fur and snarling lips, it watched her hit the gas

And in her mirror, it didn't chase-just vanished in the grass

The sheriff wrote it off again, said stories love to grow

But his deputy don't take that road, and his dog refused to go

And somewhere near a fence line stands a figure dark and grim

It doesn't chase-it waits for you to wander close to him

There's eyes on Bray Road

And they shine when none should glow

Ain't no tale for campfire comfort

It's a truth some claim to know

They say you'll hear a breathing

When the wind is standing still

And you'll feel your blood go quiet

As it watches from the hill

So if you're ever drivin'

Where the night forgets its name

Keep your tires between the gravel

And don't slow down for pain

'Cause there's things that wear a shadow

Like a coat that's soaked in sin

And on Bray Road past the county line

The beast still lingers in