Something In The Cypress
From Grace & Grit
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About the Song
A hushed, swampy country tale where a warned-about presence seems to watch from the cypress trees. As the narrator escapes, the dread follows anyway—until the song reveals it may be his own guilt and reflection all along.
Song Details
- Album
- Grace & Grit
- Track
- 29
- Release Date
- September 18, 2026
- Runtime
- 03:41
- Genre
- Modern Country
- Influences
- Swamp blues, Americana, Blues-infused country, Southern gothic
- Mood
- This record is eerie, dark, hypnotic, atmospheric, creepy, tense, mysterious, and calm but unsettling.
- Themes
- Themes include supernatural suspicion, ominous folklore, being followed, inner guilt as the source of fear, isolation and silence, backwater/swampland atmosphere, temptation and consequences, and fear that becomes self-recognition.
- BPM
- 86
- Time Signature
- 4/4
Lyrics
They warned me 'bout this backwater
Black as a moonless grave
Said don't wander past them cypress knees
Where the daylight fades away
Spanish moss just keeps a swayin'
Like it's breathin' with the breeze
Then just there below the treeline
A pair of eyes staring back at me
Pre-Hook
Then everything got quiet...
(one full measure of silence — every cricket stops)
There's something in the cypress
Cold eyes watchin' through the trees
You'll feel it beside ya
But it's somethin' you can't see
Something lurkin' in the cypress
Folks say you should leave it be
It'll trail behind ya
Till it ain't just in the trees
Just then I heard my own boots stoppin'
Though I never broke my stride
Heard another set behind me
But every time I looked, they died
That old hound quit his barkin'
Tucked his tail and faced the trees
Like he knew there stood somebody
I was never meant to see
Pre-Hook
Then everything got quiet...
(silence)
There's something in the cypress
Cold eyes watchin' through the trees
You'll feel it beside ya
But it's somethin' you can't see
Something lurkin' in the cypress
Folks say you should leave it be
It'll trail behind ya
Till it ain't just in the trees
Took one road out that backwater
Swore I'd left them trees behind
Somehow that same old silence
Beat me to the county line
Every mile got a little colder
Like this road would never end
Kept feelin' somethin' lurkin'
Just around the bend
Pre-Hook
Then everything got quiet...
(absolute silence)
There's something in the cypress
Cold eyes watchin' through the trees
You'll feel it beside ya
But it's somethin' you can't see
Something lurkin' in the cypress
Folks say you should leave it be
It'll trail behind ya
Till it ain't just in the trees
Folks got that old story wrong
Ain't no whisper in that wind
The only thing I took from that swamp
Was the sin I carried in
Pre-Hook
Then everything made sense...
(absolute silence)
Final Hook
There's nothing in the cypress
Only my shadow in those trees
It was right beside me
But never hid in them leaves
Nothing lurkin' in the cypress
Folks just blamed the trees
Just a reflection in that water
Of somethin' I shouldn't be
Black as a moonless grave
Said don't wander past them cypress knees
Where the daylight fades away
Spanish moss just keeps a swayin'
Like it's breathin' with the breeze
Then just there below the treeline
A pair of eyes staring back at me
Pre-Hook
Then everything got quiet...
(one full measure of silence — every cricket stops)
There's something in the cypress
Cold eyes watchin' through the trees
You'll feel it beside ya
But it's somethin' you can't see
Something lurkin' in the cypress
Folks say you should leave it be
It'll trail behind ya
Till it ain't just in the trees
Just then I heard my own boots stoppin'
Though I never broke my stride
Heard another set behind me
But every time I looked, they died
That old hound quit his barkin'
Tucked his tail and faced the trees
Like he knew there stood somebody
I was never meant to see
Pre-Hook
Then everything got quiet...
(silence)
There's something in the cypress
Cold eyes watchin' through the trees
You'll feel it beside ya
But it's somethin' you can't see
Something lurkin' in the cypress
Folks say you should leave it be
It'll trail behind ya
Till it ain't just in the trees
Took one road out that backwater
Swore I'd left them trees behind
Somehow that same old silence
Beat me to the county line
Every mile got a little colder
Like this road would never end
Kept feelin' somethin' lurkin'
Just around the bend
Pre-Hook
Then everything got quiet...
(absolute silence)
There's something in the cypress
Cold eyes watchin' through the trees
You'll feel it beside ya
But it's somethin' you can't see
Something lurkin' in the cypress
Folks say you should leave it be
It'll trail behind ya
Till it ain't just in the trees
Folks got that old story wrong
Ain't no whisper in that wind
The only thing I took from that swamp
Was the sin I carried in
Pre-Hook
Then everything made sense...
(absolute silence)
Final Hook
There's nothing in the cypress
Only my shadow in those trees
It was right beside me
But never hid in them leaves
Nothing lurkin' in the cypress
Folks just blamed the trees
Just a reflection in that water
Of somethin' I shouldn't be