Z the Stranger, Karath Delphi - When? Where? Why? Lyrics

I'm with the department
Let's start with the part when you said they departed
I can tell you're smart
Can you remember who was there? This young girl is missing
Probably scared. I need features to match to this capture
Maybe find what she was after
Advanced in age, you say? Hair curled, possibly gray?
I know the light wasn't perfect. Just try to recall
After all this may be the only lead that we can follow
I'm sorry if I seem uncaring and hollow
It's my third case tonight. They just get easier to swallow
but please if you could continue
I know it's hard and memory can be fickle
But still, she was laughing? Is that what you saw?
Keep going. Correct me as I draw, fill in the blanks
Try to grasp the collapses
These situations tend to be very traumatic
Just fight through the static
(Oh, there was something tragic happening upon that mattress
The hag was asking me for vaseline from inside the cabinet
Just like a counselor like you, right?)
No I'm not a counselor. I just need to draw a sketch
I'm sorry for the pressure. I promise after, you can rest
She was old. Yes I got that. You don't have to repeat it
I just need a little more detail to flesh out these features
I hope you know you were the closest to the scene of the crime
So I need you to relax and take a photo from your mind
You can go home as soon as I have an illustration
And the detective asked for an alibi explanation
No I don't suspect you had something to do with it
We have to just cover our bases
This is business as usual

Don't take this lightly. She knows we're on to her and she's on top
Of the situation. She says I'm dead if she ever got caught
She tried to plead for me at knife point to join her onslaught
I refused at first but then she told me it was not hard
For her to find the ones I loved and put them in a crock pot
I doubted her, so she found my girl and made her dissolve. Watch
How she twitches if you find her. She seems addicted to rock. Cops
Have been on her tail forever now, but I know she will not stop now

Did I tell you that she's aged for ages?
Her hair's the color of every Star Wars spaceship?
If I continue to say shit, she'll be famous in the papers
And she'll know I ratted her out to save myself
Now I blame myself for the fate I've been held to when this plays out
I'll tell you what I know 'cause I'm wasted now
The touch of her flesh was like tainted ground
She held up her chest like a fainted flower
My tongue on her breast. Oh, it tasted foul
That's what she forced me to do when I tried to resist
I was stuck on a leash that was tied to my wrists
Suicide or assist. Those were my only options
And I wasn't about to die to that lost witch
I'm thinking that would be the best description
Short fuse, probably having a red conniption
Now that I'm somewhere out her patrol
I can only imagine that what hurt the most
To all the families of the people she had turned to ghosts
Was finding out her accomplice was so unnervingly close
Listen! I only did it 'cause I was first to go
There are many others she trained. She's coerced her foes
To be her mules and dogs and slaves. Hurts to know
That even your friends are probably under her control
It got personal when my girl was posted
In the amber alerts 'cause she worked for those
Who had wanted her captured and burned to toast
If I say it now, she'll be the first to know
She's the officer who took me here from my home
Is she near, or are we alone
I bet she's behind the mirror. Go after her
NO

Now I'm stuck behind these prison walls
She stares me down from the bench she's sitting on
She shares the cell and thinks to make me crawl
Old Lady Paradise was looking sick but now she's taking off