Track Insight / Lyrics
Fog rolls thick past the lantern room
Clock strikes twelve in the deep gloom
Velvet cloaks sweep the marble floor
Salt wind howls at the bolted door
Salt and velvet, tide turns black
Lantern swings on skeleton's back
Midnight masquerade, the keeper knows
Halloween comes with the undertow
Masks carved from driftwood, bone, and shell
Each one has a tale to tell
Pipe organ moans through cracked lead panes
While the surf pounds heavy, wind and rain
Salt and velvet, tide turns black
Lantern swings on skeleton's back
Midnight masquerade, the keeper knows
Halloween comes with the undertow
I watched the beam cut the night for years
Now phantoms sway with spectral peers
The light still sweeps but the lens is cold
Phantoms waltz where the lantern's gold
Salt and velvet, tide turns black
Lantern swings on skeleton's back
Midnight masquerade, the keeper knows
Halloween comes with the undertow
Candle wax drips on velvet sleeves
Dead men dance on holiday eves
The cello bows a low dirge tune
Beneath the hunter's harvest moon
The sea doesn't care for masks or names
It takes the ships, it takes the claims
But tonight the keeper tends the flame
Calling the lost by their true-born name
Dawn will break on the empty hall
Velvet cloaks fade on the stone wall
The lens is lit, the beam cuts deep
The keeper wakes from haunted sleep
Salt and velvet, tide turns black
Lantern swings on skeleton's back
Midnight masquerade, the keeper knows
Halloween comes with the undertow
Salt and velvet, the tide turns black
Halloween rides on the undertow
