The grinningv6

[Verse 1] The grinning skulls have found their partners now The crowd poured like a river down the narrow stair The iron bolt sprang loose and rang like a bell on the flagstones While snow heaped white as a shroud against the entrance there [Chorus] The keeper bows, the circle draws tight Too late I learned the guest's cold right Storms bury footprints, tides erase the sand But the crypt holds every name in its hand The keeper bows, the circle draws tight Too late I learned the guest's cold right Storms bury footprints, tides erase the sand But the crypt holds every name in its hand [Verse 2] The lanterns guttered low like dying stars against the ceiling The fiddler sawed a tune I'd heard before A hundred faces turned as one, a field of moons to face me A hundred shadows rippled across the floor [Chorus] The keeper bows, the circle draws tight Too late I learned the guest's cold right Storms bury footprints, tides erase the sand But the crypt holds every name in its hand The keeper bows, the circle draws tight Too late I learned the guest's cold right Storms bury footprints, tides erase the sand But the crypt holds every name in its hand [Bridge] The wind came screaming down the mountain passes like a wounded thing The candles died, the music frayed to a thread I felt the cold stone close around my fingers like a fist And heard the voices rising from the dead [Chorus] The keeper bows, the circle draws tight Too late I learned the guest's cold right Storms bury footprints, tides erase the sand But the crypt holds every name in its hand The keeper bows, the circle draws tight Too late I learned the guest's cold right Storms bury footprints, tides erase the sand But the crypt holds every name in its hand [Outro] The grinning skulls have found their partners The snow packs white as bone against the door And I am just another name, a whisper in the stone The crypt has learned to hold