All Roads Lead to Polycomb

[Intro] [suno:: Single clean electric guitar figure, played alone with heavy reverb and delay. Dissonant voicing, unresolved. Repeats. Bass enters low and slow underneath. Drums come in, tight snare and close hi-hat, mid-tempo and steady. Nothing bright. Hazy and tense.] [Verse 1] Somebody went out past the fence last night Past the county line, they say Heard he found a way around it Heard a lot of things that way By morning they were saying he was back Nobody saw him come Nobody's got it first hand That's just how the talking runs [Chorus] All roads lead to Polycomb Take the long way if you like All roads lead to Polycomb Same place, longer night [Guitar Fills] [Verse 2] Said he knew about a path they hadn't closed Said he'd take the long way home Went out past the boundary at midnight But all roads lead to The Comb [Verse 3] It started in the house beside the water Then the one that shared its wall Nobody said what happened in the first one Nobody said much at all The story crossed the yards like borrowed weather A hush moved door to door By the time it got down to our end No one spoke of it anymore [Chorus] All roads lead to Polycomb Take the long way if you like All roads lead to Polycomb Same place, longer night [Instrumental break] [Verse 4] Same word went out to every lit-up window It came for all of us, and more Half the street went black behind the curtains But half kept burning as before No reason anyone could give No pattern anyone could see I counted every lamp from my front step And left the question there with me [Bridge] Then the linemen came in after sundown Sleeves rolled up, clearing it all away Didn't ask them how they did it Didn't know if it would stay I keep my hand against the switch tonight As if my touch could make it stay I don’t know what the morning will decide I only know I’m here today [Guitar Solo] [Pre-chorus] Woke up in the same old place The crew is still out Working through the silence One block at a time [Final Chorus] All roads lead to Polycomb Take the long way if you like All roads lead to Polycomb But a road can turn, a light can stay All roads lead to Polycomb Still, we’re here to clear the way