[Intro — warm but unsettling harpsichord melody, pizzicato cello] [Detuned celesta plays an off-kilter three-note motif] [Bassoon answers in a slightly dissonant harmony] [Heavy guitar and live drums enter with a brisk, syncopated gothic groove] [Verse 1 — nimble, conspiratorial female vocals] The Hunt went quiet past the hill The bells were low, the branches still We hung our coats beside the flame One more was there without a name The plates went round, the cider poured A chair scraped softly on the floor I pushed it in beneath the board It drew itself back out once more [Pre-Chorus — tightening pizzicato strings, eerie muted brass] The glasses ring The candles bend I count to twelve And start again [Chorus — huge dark melodic hook, heavy guitars and full chamber orchestra] COUNT AGAIN! COUNT AGAIN! TWELVE FACES BY THE FIRE THIRTEEN SHADOWS ON THE WALL! COUNT AGAIN! COUNT AGAIN! NO ONE'S IN THE EMPTY PLACE SO WHO ANSWERED WHEN I CALLED? [Post-Chorus — haunting layered female harmonies, restless pizzicato rhythm] COUNT AGAIN! COUNT AGAIN! [Instrumental — harpsichord and bassoon exchange the crooked three-note motif, answered by distorted guitar] [Verse 2 — increasingly uneasy rhythmic vocals] The baker heard her mother's laugh The mayor saw a childhood friend The innkeeper remembered hands That pulled her from the snow again Each time they spoke, the candles leaned Their faces softened at the seams I looked across the empty chair And saw the cushion sinking there [Pre-Chorus — nervous violins, dissonant brass, deeper female harmonies] One glass is warm One napkin stained I count to twelve And count again [Chorus — enormous melodic female vocals, increasingly uncanny layered harmonies] COUNT AGAIN! COUNT AGAIN! TWELVE FACES BY THE FIRE THIRTEEN SHADOWS ON THE WALL! COUNT AGAIN! COUNT AGAIN! NO ONE'S IN THE EMPTY PLACE SO WHO ANSWERED WHEN I CALLED? [Post-Chorus — ghostly harmonies, detuned celesta] COUNT AGAIN! COUNT AGAIN! [Instrumental — pizzicato strings accelerate against the driving guitar groove] [Breakdown — crushing syncopated guitars, pounding drums, dissonant low brass, tempo unchanged] THE CANDLE BENDS! THE TABLE SHAKES! I COUNT TO TWELVE! THE ROOM SAYS THIRTEEN! [Sudden full-band cutoff] [The three-note motif continues in solo harpsichord] [One additional female harmony enters on the final note] [Explosive low brass and distorted guitar hit] [Extended Instrumental — frantic gothic chamber-metal passage] [Pizzicato cellos and violas race through nervous chromatic figures] [Bassoon and bass clarinet exchange crooked countermelodies] [Harpsichord plays increasingly dissonant variations of the three-note motif] [Heavy electric guitar answers with a twisting melodic solo] [Bowed vibraphone sustains an eerie note above the driving drums] [The instruments begin playing overlapping versions of the same melody] [Female vocal harmonies multiply, subtly out of alignment] [Full orchestra and guitars lock into one enormous rhythmic unison] [Explosive drum fill] [Final Chorus — desperate, soaring female lead, full orchestra and increasingly uncanny harmonies] COUNT AGAIN! COUNT AGAIN! TWELVE FACES BY THE FIRE THIRTEEN SHADOWS ON THE WALL! COUNT AGAIN! COUNT AGAIN! NO ONE'S IN THE EMPTY PLACE BUT THERE'S ONE MORE VOICE IN SONG! [Final Refrain — infectious, unsettling layered female harmonies] COUNT AGAIN! COUNT AGAIN! TWELVE BY THE FIRE! THIRTEEN ON THE WALL! COUNT AGAIN! COUNT AGAIN! [Full band reprises the three-note motif] [Sudden instrumental cutoff] [Outro — quiet rhythmic harpsichord and pizzicato cello] [Female lead — softly melodic, increasingly uneasy] The fire sank The candles thinned The chair drew close And someone breathed in [The three-note melody sounds one final time, with an extra note] [Unresolved orchestral chord] [Silence]
