[Verse] There’s a shadow in the doorway A clock that never chimes The air is thick with whispers And the weight of borrowed time [Prechorus] The walls are cold they’re breathing They know what I’ve become [Chorus] In the house of the rising sun No mercy no place to run Every debt comes due when the night is done In the house of the rising sun [Verse 2] The stairs creak like a warning A shiver in my bones I hear the ghosts are singing But they’re calling out my own [Prechorus] I lit the match I watched it burn Now nowhere’s safe to turn [Chorus] In the house of the rising sun Where the sins of the past all weigh a ton Every shadow speaks what I’ve undone In the house of the rising sun
