The Shadow That Doesn’t Belong [Verse 1] We were sitting by the fire When we saw it through the trees Something long and black was moving Though there wasn’t any breeze We laughed and blamed the moonlight Said our eyes were playing tricks But the thing stayed just beyond us And it didn’t seem to blink [Pre-Chorus] Every time we turned away It seemed a little closer Every time we looked again It vanished in the dark [Chorus] There’s a shadow that doesn’t belong Moving where no body stands There’s a shadow that doesn’t belong Following us across the land We can hear the branches breaking But there’s nothing we can see There’s a shadow that doesn’t belong And it’s getting close to me [Verse 2] We threw another log upon it Watched the fire rise and roar For a moment there was nothing Then it stood beside the door Someone shouted, “Run!” and we did Through the darkness, through the rain But that thing was always with us At the edge of every flame [Pre-Chorus] Then we found an old stone marker Half forgotten in the ground And the moment that we touched it We could hear that same strange sound [Chorus] There’s a shadow that doesn’t belong Moving where no body stands There’s a shadow that doesn’t belong Following us across the land We can hear the branches breaking But there’s nothing we can see There’s a shadow that doesn’t belong And it’s getting close to me [Bridge] There was a name beneath the moss And a photograph below A man was standing by this fire From a hundred years ago But something wasn’t right about it Something made us step away For the man was standing in the sunlight Yet his shadow looked the other way [Break] Then we understood. [Final Verse] He had died beside this fire On a night much like our own And somehow when they buried him His shadow wasn’t gone It had stayed behind beneath the trees While his body turned to dust And every hundred years or so It wakes because it must [Final Chorus] It’s a shadow that doesn’t belong A shadow with nobody there It isn’t a man, it isn’t a ghost It’s what’s left when a shadow loses its owner It follows every fire Searching for the shape it knew And tonight it found another one It almost looked like you [Outro] So if you camp here after midnight And the moon is shining bright Don’t be frightened by the darkness Just make sure your shadow’s right Because if it moves without you… Run.
