Ol' Evil Eye

(album: Riddle Box - 1995)

"Start the movie."

"I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult.
For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye. Yes, it was this. One
of his eyes resembled that of a vulture. A pale, blue eye with a film over
it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold. And so, by degrees, very
gradually, I made up my mind to take the life of the old man and thus rid
myself of the eye forever."

So I'm headed door to door
With my grandmother's cookie jar
I'm selling cookies, 12 for a dollar
I ring the doorbell, nobody wants any
I resort to going cheaper 2 for a penny
Anybody, everybody, they hate me
I can tell when they spit and degrade me
There's only one house left, the last on the block
Old Man Willie on the hilltop
I ring the doorbel, the door creeps open
And there it was staring and scoping
The man's left eye, red, big, and dripping
I was tripping. "Ahh, seeya!"
I ran home. I couldn't stop thinking
About his eyeball winking and blinking
And it looked not a damn thing like the other Ugh!
Shoulda wore a patch on the motherfucker
It hypnotized me, mesmorized me
Traumatized, paralyzed, terrorized me
Creepers, where'd you get that ball
And tell me how it even fits in your skull

[prechorus:]
I want a big long knife to stick it in.
I wanna lift up the eyelid and kick it in.
He's gotta die. I want his eye buried in my backyard.
It ain't hard, I'm killing Old Evil Eye!
[End prechorus]

[chorus:]
Evil eye...
Oh-Oh-Eye (The bitch gon' die! Die-die-die-die-die-die-die)
Evil eye...
Oh-Oh
[End chorus]

"Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you
should've seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded with caution
with what foresight, with what patience I went to work. I was never kinder
to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."

A day gone pass since I heard about J.O.
Met up in this sleigh, cuz I don't fucking play.
Anyway, I gotta do him in. Got a rusty revolver
Put the silver bullets in.
I'm planning on playing one right to his nugget.
Down my drawers with the bucket.
It's time to go, fuck it.
I stuck it up... to his neck when he came to the door.
I really didn't know what I was in for.
First the cold man stared, no a gaze, no a stare.
Kinda like there was no one there.
How weird, my body froze with the blink of his eye.
Evil eye, sending chills up my spine.
What to do? What to do? I gotta try to break.
I gotta try to make.. my way to the gate.
Wait. I can't move, I'm stuck to the ground.
W-What the fuck was that? I think I heard a sound,
Turned around, there it was, staring at my face.
This little old man's eye's a make me a mental case.
That's when I felt the pain deep inside,
Deep inside, now his eye's open wide.

[prechorus]

[chorus]

"That night it ceased. The old man was dead. I placed my hands on the
heart and there for many minutes there was no pulsation. He was stone dead.
His eye will trouble me no longer. His eye will trouble me no longer."

[chorus X4]