[Intro] [Metal blades drag slow across a pipe, long scrape, then silence] Sleep if you want I already know the street I never left it [Verse 1] Springwood had a name for me before the fire Not a ghost, a man, a hunter after dark Kids went missing on the block and didn’t come home Parents knew the face and still they locked the door They didn’t call the law, they called each other Dragged me to the boiler, gasoline and anger Flames took the skin, the scream, the breath They thought a body in the ash was death [Chorus] One, two, I’m already through Three, four, you locked the wrong door Five, six, the glove does the tricks Seven, eight, too late to stay awake Nine, ten… never sleep again Back on Elm Don’t close your eyes [Verse 2] Death didn’t hold, I woke inside the dream Their kids’ own sleep became the room I keep No street, no witness, no one to hear them run I meet them where the waking world can’t come Glove on the hand, four blades, the old hat low I drag the metal down the rail so they know They wake with the mark, or they don’t wake at all Springwood learned the fire didn’t end the call [Chorus] One, two, I’m already through Three, four, you locked the wrong door Five, six, the glove does the tricks Seven, eight, too late to stay awake Nine, ten… never sleep again Back on Elm Don’t close your eyes [Verse 3] Boiler still ticks under 1428 Steam on the railing, hat on the grate You can board the bedroom, leave every light Light’s just a curtain, it ain’t a fight Parents made a monster trying to kill a man Burned the body, fed me the dream in their hands I been in the plaster since the night of the fire Smile in the dark, then I knock on the door [Bridge] [Blades scrape the rail once, slow] One street One town One sleep I’m still around [Final Chorus] One, two, I’m already through Three, four, you locked the wrong door Five, six, the glove does the tricks Seven, eight, too late to stay awake Nine, ten… never sleep again Back on Elm I’m already there
