"In 2005, Teri Knight drove 650 miles on midwestern roads through Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, pleading with the public to help her do what law enforcement and the FBI had not been able to: find the remains of her children Sarah and Philip Gehring. An Ohio woman read about Teri Knight’s search in her local paper, and decided she would try to help."
-Criminal's summary.
Listen to the podcast episode that inspired it here:
www.thisiscriminal.com/episode-60-finding-sarah-and-philip-2-3-2017
lyrics
Fourth of July New Hampshire it is,
off on a drive now Gehring is pissed,
divorcing his wife now sharing the kids
with “poor Teri Knight” unfair little bitch!
At 14, Sarah amused from the window,
Phillip, 11, enthused by the big show's
missiles, Manuel brutal, a sicko
explodes too as he fumes over insults
miss those usual routes to the kids' home,
grips holster, dim moon is a sickle
pistol joins in the booming that's in vogue
ripped holes gruesomely through where their grins go
after the blasphemous act his van is a madhouse,
parody act of a Dad as they're fastened and strapped down,
Manuel panicking, New Hampshire fast in the background
burying bagging he's practically been blacked out
Chorus (Teri)
No person should have to bury their children
Never mind WANT to, after they've killed them
plagued by questions a parent is filled with
Please help me find Sarah and Phillip
No person should have to bury their children
never mind WANT TO, after they've killed them
crave my answers I ask could they still live?
Please help me find Sarah and Phillip
in a week in the west they catch the cold psycho
he then confessed, depressed in his own trial,
he then attempts directing them towards child bones
heathen forgets, at best “its in Ohio”
That's all from the Dad, cause it all went black
recalls what he can as he scrawls them a map,
ironic and sad, unconsciously stabs
when the drawing he has is a Toddler's craft
concrete slabs like monument drafts
green pump, tall grass and some logs in a stack
offering that to absolve what he has done
strangles himself and their door to the facts shut
Chorus ( Stephanie)
No person should have to bury their children
Never mind WANT to, after they've killed them
I'll search silent to spare you the built up
I swear I'll find Sarah and Phillip
No person should have to bury their children
never mind WANT TO, after they've killed them
grief is a death tax, Charon will bill us
I swear I'll find Sarah and Phillip
2 years through this, clues all useless
Feds look fruitless, press push news clips
a clarion call to Samaritans “please search”
clarity's all and the burial deserved
who reads it? Stephanie Dietrich, a grocer,
Deeply felt Terri Knight's pleading for closure
A mother, she empathized grief even closer,
sees it her home turf? “Ricco lets go search”
untold, humble, salt of the earth make
dug those chuck holes mocking the worst graves
Gung-Ho Pup, no halting the search made
runs roads months flow calls into work late!
Nice Cujo with a fine-tuned nose
piled loose notes, Steph's fine-toothed comb
mine crude holes, won't quite lose hope
we will fly you home and then find tombstones
The pup chose to sit in some snow by the road,
uncovers the kids, “when you know then you know”
Ricco beside her, she needs no admirers
she says “it's just how some how people are wired”
credits
from Dusty Dossiers EP,
released December 14, 2017
Lyrics written and performed by Bruce "AllOne" Pandolfo
Instrumental produced by Dope KNife
Samples from Criminal Podcast
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Franky Bones
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