[Intro] Beneath the hill, the iron turns One night a year, the black seal burns [Verse 1] When harvest moons divide the stone The buried hinges wake alone A stair descends where no roots grow And something waits below [Pre-Chorus] Bring no lie across that seam The keeper knows what you have been [Chorus] Once each year, the gate swings wide Down where the devil keeps his throne The just walk out with gold and health The damned are claimed and dragged below [Verse 2] A silver cup, a healing hand For those who kept their honest stand But every stolen prayer is weighed Every cruel debt is paid [Pre-Chorus] The black door hears the guilty breathe And knows the names they try to leave [Chorus] Once each year, the gate swings wide Down where the devil keeps his throne The just walk out with gold and health The damned are claimed and dragged below [Bridge] No coin can buy the judgment back No fever breaks the sinner’s track The righteous rise beneath the dawn The faithless vanish, nameless, gone [Final Chorus] Once each year, the gate swings wide The underworld unveils its throne The just return with wealth and health The damned are lost beneath the stone [Outro] The hinges sleep; the hill is still Until one year turns the wheel
