Marvin Video (MV)

Underneath the August sun
The myrtles start to rot
You can just about drink the air
In this town progress forgot
One afternoon a neighbour spied
A boy with tangled hair
And eyes like two pools of crude
Opaque with quiet despair

We all knew him some but not too well
He never said too much
Never set out swinging
I never heard him cuss
In church he sat behind the choir
But no words did he sing
His mouth would move but no sound came out
He never gave away a thing

When the police asked his business
And asked to know his name
The boy replied beneath his breath
Marvin Marvin Littleman

Well they left him there on the street
Outside the sheriff's house
Figured it was just the place
If trouble did break out
Cicadas sang their deafening song
The sheriff's wife came home
Carrying her days shopping
In tan and slender arms

Marvin cried her name out loud
A high and strangled howl
The myrtles shook a crow took flight
Marvin he shot her where she stood

Devils calling
The devils calling
The devils calling now

We may never know the story
May never understand
What evil hand did overtake
Marvin Littleman
The kind and gentle Sarah
A woman twice his age
Came home one summers evening
Home to an early grave

The devil's calling
The devil's calling
The devil's calling now