In the hallway down the staircase slowly opening the creaking door Someone comes along and smiles and for a moment all is quite the norm Avoiding all the crowd below the sound of conversations spin And patiently I wait in every corner for someone to come in
Dry'd in dust on darkened floors, a gasp resists with every buried breath Watching shadows through the cracks of light that shape and sway with every step So carefully and quietly and with an undetected hand In comes a breeze it sweeps the room and follows with a distant slam
Donned in bath kerchief the chambermaids unlock and let the daylight in She spoke of trees, and creeping things and nestled foundlings in the Starlight crib With an unsaving clench a bribe under the cloak is unconcealed And all her secrets now belong forever to whom she revealed
We build on wretched ruins thinly veiled below our skin & bones Cowards, sing each other's rhyme and add a verse of all your wicked moans It starts off as a whisper and grows into the deepest battle cry Pressing ears and spying eyes await the beast we're nurturing inside
Questions fly and so do I, the hole fills with our harshest stones unturned 'Neath the cardhouse all my kings are buried and the queen won't say a word We plant the tales, they feed on us 'til accusations earn their wings Sold out for sharpened tongues and spit into the air these creeping things