Creature Feature

Truck tires humming on an empty street

Static in the air and dust in the heat

Fence posts shaking but the ground looks still

Something down there getting ready to kill

No tracks, no sound, no warning sign

Just severed wool in the county line

Something moving through the sand unseen

Buried hunger in a desert dream

Feel the ground start breathing

Every step you’re feeding

The thing beneath the dust

Creature feature under desert sky

Something hungry crawling deep below

Every footstep tells it where you hide

Every heartbeat says it’s time to go

Horse hooves pounding across the flats

Then the dirt erupts and the ground cracks back

Teeth in the sand and a screaming roar

Concrete culvert turns into a war

Snake-tongue whipping at the truck axle

Rubber burns while steel starts to rattle

Rip it loose, but the truth gets shown

That was just the tongue of the creature below

No running now, nowhere safe

The ground itself begins to wake

The desert listens when you move

Creature feature under desert sky

Something hungry crawling deep below

Every footstep tells it where you hide

Every heartbeat says it’s time to go

Perfection town but nothing’s right

Rooftops glowing in the fading light

Three more shadows under the sand

Waiting for a careless step to land

Jump from stone to stone tonight

Poles and panic, desert fight

Silence is the only rule

Or the earth becomes your tomb

Creature feature under desert sky

Dust and thunder splitting through the plain

When the monster finally starts to rise

Send it screaming back into the flame

Creature feature, tremor in the ground

Dust clouds rising when the silence breaks

If the earth starts moving all around

Better pray the rock you’re on won’t shake