[Intro — a web trembling; Haggard, spoken low] They asked the spider why he sings... I told them: everything I catch, I keep. [Verse 1 — swaggering] Born in the marrow, raised in the thread, I drank my milk from the honored dead, Eight-legged shadow with a singer's throat — I wear my skeleton like a coat. [Chorus — huge, chant-along] Bone on silk! Silk on bone! Hear the spider sing his own! Every thread a promise kept — The web remembers while you slept! [Verse 2 — the familiar's oath] You call me familiar, you call me friend, I'll guard your back until the end, I read the tremors in the line — Your enemies get tangled in mine. [Chorus] Bone on silk! Silk on bone! Hear the spider sing his own! Every thread a promise kept — The web remembers while you slept! [Bridge — THE BONE PIPER FEATURE: bone pipes alone, ancient and mournful] [Haggard, awed, over the pipes] Play, Piper... play the marrow's tune... Every bone remembers being whole... [Final chorus — biggest] Bone on silk! Silk on bone! Hear the spider sing his own! Every thread a promise kept — The web remembers while you slept! [Outro — Haggard, spoken, fading] The web remembers. And so do I.
