Everybody Thinks They're The One To Get Away

I knew a preacher with a tight necktie,

Shaking his fist at the folks going by,

Saying don't you know you're heading

The wrong way?

Wonder what they'd do if the people all knew,

When he get home he don't take off his shoes

He's headed for the cat house the very same day

I knew a killer with a shark tooth grin,

You look twice he'll do you in,

But he ain't worried

Mama taught him how to pray

He'd take a coin,

Throw it in the well, he'd burn a wick,

Cast him a spell, and all the blood

On his hands just wash away.

Cause everybody,

Everybody,

Everybody thinks they're the one to get away.

Everybody, everybody

Oh everybody thinks they're the one to get away.

I knew a man with a firm handshake,

His name on the doors, his name on the plates,

You only live in this town cause he lets you stay

But he's your friend and he's mine too,

And he gonna do what he say gonna do,

It's a shame every promise that he made was a fake.

But I know time and I know luck, and I can feel both of them creeping up,

Tallies, getting mighty tall as some might say

There's a straw gonna break the back,

There's a day we gonna face the facts,

That ain't nobody

Really getting away

Cause everybody, everybody,

Oh everybody thinks they're the one to get away,

Everybody, everybody

Yeah everybody thinks they're the one to get away

Hey there's a devil, there's a devil in a henhouse,

Hey there's a man with an axe in his hand,

Oh there's a

Lover in my bed

Hey there's a lover, there's a lover in a henhouse,

Hey there's a devil with an axe in his hand,

And oh there's

A man in my bed

Hey there's a man, there's a man with a henhouse,

Hey there's a lover with an axe in her hand, and

Oh there's a devil in my bed

Cause I knew a preacher with a shark tooth grin,