[Intro] The gate groans open... Iron teeth against the night Gravel shifts beneath my shoes I should not be here... should I? [Verse] The manor looms in peeling white Windows blind and starless bright Dust like drifting snow In the beam of my light The door yields with a tired sigh Air rolls out... old and dry Perfume faint as memory Sweet... and wrong [Pre-Chorus] Then I hear it... Soft and low A woman humming far below One... two... three... From somewhere deep in the house [Chorus] Round we go... Through the echo of long ago... The voice curls slow Along the marble and the stone Turn with me... In this pale eternity... The words float free But they are not for me [Verse] Down the corridor of portraits Eyes that follow as I pass My heartbeat trips Half a beat too fast The ballroom doors stand open wide Moonlight spills across the tile And there... the floor Is marked by circling dust No one there... Yet skirts of air brush past my knees A gloved hand grazes mine Cold as keys [Bridge] Her voice grows clearer in the dark Velvet low... it leaves a mark Each phrase behind the beat Like breath against my ear Do not speak too loud... The walls remember... The walls are proud... I try to move But the rhythm pulls One... two... three... My steps are not my own [Break] Chandelier sways though still the air I feel her standing somewhere near Long vowels drawn like silk through flame She almost says my name [Final Chorus] Round we go... Though I never meant to know... In the manor down below Where the roses never grow Turn with me... She is singing through me... My shadow bends obediently Across the ballroom floor Stay with me... The final note wraps quietly Around my ribs... inside my chest [Outro] The music thins... The candles dim... I stand alone Dust settles slow But on the floor Two sets of footprints show One... two... three...
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