[Intro] [FX: distant alpine wind, tape hiss, low sub drone] [Whispered female vocal] The snow remembers every name I buried mine beneath the firs [Verse 1] [Instrument: detuned organ, bowed metal] You left a bell beside my bed It rings whenever I forget The room gets smaller when I breathe Your frozen hand is underneath [Pre-Chorus] [Vocal technique: restrained Swiss yodel, wide interval leaps] Yo-de-le-ee, yo-de-le-oh The white slopes open down below Yo-de-le-ee, yo-de-le-ah Something wearing my face is there [Chorus] [Vocal technique: yodel breaking into digital crackle] I call you up the mountain You answer from my throat I call you up the mountain You pull apart the note [FX: voice fragments, bitcrushed crackle] Yodel—yodel—krrr—krrr—krrr [Verse 2] [Instrument: sub-bass swell, sparse industrial percussion] At dawn, the windows showed no glass Just rows of teeth beneath the frost I saw the village kneel in time While every mouth repeated mine [Bridge] [Vocal technique: banshee wail, breath distortion] Do not turn the lantern on Do not count the bodies gone There is a choir in the snow And every singer used to know [Breakdown] [FX: hard silence, granular crackle, reversed bell] [Whispered vocal] Your pulse is not your own Your pulse is not your own [Voice mutation: yodel syllables fragmenting] Yo—de—le—ee—krrr Yo—de—le—oh—krrr [Final Chorus] [Vocal technique: full banshee yodel collapsing into static] I call you up the mountain The mountain calls me back I call you up the mountain And split along the track [FX: clipped shrieks, radio crackle, sub drop] Yodel—yodel—krrr—krrr—krrr [Outro] [Instrument: organ fading into bowed-metal resonance] [Whispered female vocal] The snow remembers every name Now it remembers mine [FX: distant yodel dissolving into crackle]
