Ghosts In The Velvet Room (Remastered)

[Intro] [low choral whispers Distant bells] In the half-lit hall Pictures breathe Shadows lean And they know your name [Verse 1] Cold glass on your back at three Frost crawls in a crooked line Footsteps in an empty room Breathing on the telephone wire You wake up with your fists clenched shut Nails red from the things you held Someone sitting on your chest Humming songs you never learned [Chorus] Ghosts in the velvet room Pulling at the corners of our sleep Calling from the cracks in the ceiling (we hear you, we hear you) Hands through the curtain gloom Tracing every promise we could not keep Haunting every dream we said was ours (and we can’t wake up) [Verse 2] Teeth of the wardrobe grinning wide Coats sway like a quiet tide Laughter down the hallway bends Thins out where the carpet ends You reach for the lamp It moves Light switch wet with yesterday Every fear you buried deep Walks the floor in borrowed skin [Chorus] Ghosts in the velvet room Pulling at the corners of our sleep Calling from the cracks in the ceiling (we hear you, we hear you) Hands through the curtain gloom Tracing every promise we could not keep Haunting every dream we said was ours (and we can’t wake up) [Bridge] [choir rising Drum surge] Ave nocturna Lumen fractum Sanguis vetus Clamat in somnis (chants: “haunt us, hold us, never let us go”) [Chorus] Ghosts in the velvet room Pulling at the corners of our sleep Calling from the cracks in the ceiling (we hear you, we hear you) Hands through the curtain gloom Tracing every promise we could not keep Haunting every dream we said was ours ’Til sleep feels like the grave we share (and we can’t wake up)