The Coral - The Box lyrics

rate me

A box arrived this morning

Its reason was unspoken

It was signed and sent with deadly seal

The box said "Do Not Open"

It stood there in the hallway

And arrested my attention

I paced the floor and pondered why

The box said "Do Not Open"

And still I wondered,

"Will temptation get the best of me again?"

It was just the very thing I wasn't

Wishin' to be ownin'

A package sent to Waseley Hills

The box said "Do Not Open"

Seven lonely days went by

I wasn't really copin'

It soon consumed my every thought -

The box said "Do Not Open"

And still I wondered,

"Will temptation get the best of me again?"

Frozen there in terror, I

Could hardly have been hopin'

Through an omen of my comin' doom,

The box said "Do Not Open"

An image of repulsion

I saw the premonition

It filled my frightened mind and still,

The box said "Do Not Open"

And still I wondered,

"Will temptation get the best of me again?"

I couldn't stand the torture

And approached the thing in question

I ripped away the seal

The box, it lay there open

And there I was, a sorry man

All doubled up and chokin'

With bleedin' hands and withered nails,

The box, it lay there open

And it looks like

Temptation got the best of me again<br />

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Thanks to Thom Gianelli