the graveyard never sleeps

Lyrics

Moonlight spills on the iron gate
I hear the hinges sing my fate
Dead leaves skitter across the stones
While something whispers through the bones

A crooked tree keeps watch above
Its branches claw at the sky like gloves
I came here laughing, came alone
Now every shadow knows my name

Cold hands tapping on the glass
Footsteps following as I pass

Ghosts in the graveyard, rise with the night
Rattle the headstones, dance in the light
Calling from under the roots and the rain
Ghosts in the graveyard are calling again
Hey! Hey!
The dead don’t sleep in this place

A lantern swings where no wind blows
A silver mist begins to grow
Faces flicker behind the yews
Old eyes shine through the midnight blue

The church bell tolls, but the tower’s bare
A choir of whispers fills the air
They reach for me with paper hands
And pull me toward the buried land

Cold hands tapping on the glass
Footsteps following as I pass

Ghosts in the graveyard, rise with the night
Rattle the headstones, dance in the light
Calling from under the roots and the rain
Ghosts in the graveyard are calling again
Hey! Hey!
The dead don’t sleep in this place

One says, “We were young once, too”
One says, “The world forgot us through”
Then the ground gives way beneath my feet
And the whole hill starts keeping the beat

So I shout back into the storm
“I’m not ready to join your form!”
But the gate swings wide, the dawn stays gone
And the restless dead keep singing on

Ghosts in the graveyard, rise with the night
Rattle the headstones, dance in the light
Calling from under the roots and the rain
Ghosts in the graveyard are calling again
Hey! Hey!
The dead don’t sleep in this place

At sunrise, the gate stands open wide
My footprints end on the other side
Moonlight fades, but the whispers stay
Ghosts in the graveyard call my name
The dead don’t sleep
The dead don’t sleep
The dead don’t sleep in this place