[Intro] [Keys jangling on a ring] [Spoken, tired] Ninety-one doors. Ninety-one keys. One of them is mine. [Verse 1] I mop what I'm not meant to see. I paint the hallway twice a year. The stain comes back through every coat, so I paint it once again. I fix the lamp on the second floor. It burns out every night. I've replaced the bulb four hundred times. I don't ask why it dies. [Pre-Chorus] The guests all say, "Somebody should do something." I say, "Yes," and I lock the door. That's the something I do. [Chorus] I am the keeper. I keep it. That's all the word has ever meant. I don't ask who's in the water. I don't ask what's on the stairs. I don't ask, and I don't tell, and I have never been afraid. [Backing hum] I have never been afraid. [Verse 2] I heard the girl on the landing. I heard her count to twelve. I stood one floor beneath her with the mop still in my hand. I could have climbed. I know the stairs. I know which ones complain. I knew the man who came down after. I held the door for him. [Pre-Chorus] He said, "Goodnight." I said, "Goodnight." That was all that either of us said. [Chorus] [Post-Chorus] [Pitched-up vocal chop] Mor-ke, Mor-ke Mor-ke, Mor-ke Who? Who? [Bridge] [Guitar drops out, voice almost spoken] Ninety-one doors. Ninety-one keys. I can open every room in this hotel. There is no room in this hotel that can open me. [Pause] That's a lie. Room twelve. I have never opened room twelve, and room twelve knows my name. [Final Chorus] I am the keeper. I keep it. Whatever it is, I keep it. And when they ask me at the end what I saw and what I heard, I'll say the lamp kept going out. I'll say I did my job. [Whispered] I held the door. I held the door. [Outro] [Keys jangling, slower] [Spoken] Ninety-one doors. [Pause] Ninety-two. [A key drops on the floor]
