[Verse 1] I keep a lantern in my ribs For the names I cannot bury The moon comes pale as old bone milk And stains my hands when I carry I know the language under dirt How roots will remember your face I read the hush in a coffin tree And wake the dark in its place [Pre-Chorus] So come on back Come on back to me I can hear your shadow Knocking at the seam [Chorus] I raise the dead, I raise the dead With a fistful of roses and a thread of red I raise the dead, I raise the dead Turn the coldest silence into a heartbeat bed (raise the dead) (raise the dead) [Verse 2] My garden grows on broken vows On cracked teeth and rainy stone I plant a kiss in the blackened earth And watch a whole night bloom I am a door with no last room A key in a skull of clay If love is a fire that leaves no ash Then I am the smoke it made [Pre-Chorus] So come on back Come on back to me I can hear your shadow Knocking at the seam [Chorus] I raise the dead, I raise the dead With a fistful of roses and a thread of red I raise the dead, I raise the dead Turn the coldest silence into a heartbeat bed (raise the dead) (raise the dead) [Bridge] When the river takes your silver name I still keep one note alive A spark in a jar, a moth in rain A pulse that refuses to die And if the dawn comes looking for me I’ll be standing in blackened gold With a chapel of crows in my throat And a kingdom made of cold [Final Chorus] I raise the dead, I raise the dead With a fistful of roses and a thread of red I raise the dead, I raise the dead Turn the coldest silence into a heartbeat bed I raise the dead, I raise the dead And the bones all bloom where the midnight bled (raise the dead) (raise the dead)
