[Intro] They said don’t climb after the lamps go mean I climbed [Verse 1] Bald rock, black pine, a path like a scar Heat in the stone that the day didn’t put there Fiddle-scratch somewhere above the tree line Not a wedding A summons in time I heard my name in a language of crows I answered because the wind already knows Cloaks on the ridge, too many, too thin A circle of want with a fire within [Pre-Chorus] No moon permission No priest on the slope Just the mountain agreeing And a bell that won’t cope [Chorus] Bald Mountain Open your throat Bald Mountain We brought the night a host Bald Mountain Horned in the smoke Bald Mountain Dance till the dawn breaks the oath If you hear the fiddles, don’t follow the sound Bald Mountain The living don’t come down [Verse 2] He stood in the fire like a man made of no Antlers of shadow, a grin in the coal Witches for a choir, not pretty, not few They traded their names for a measure or two I saw a neighbor I buried in June She bowed to the tempo She laughed at the moon The riff was a gallop, the organ a sneer Every step upward cost me a year [Pre-Chorus] Count us Don’t save us The peak is the church The night is the service [Chorus] Bald Mountain Open your throat Bald Mountain We brought the night a host Bald Mountain Horned in the smoke Bald Mountain Dance till the dawn breaks the oath If you kneel to the circle, you kneel to the sound Bald Mountain The living don’t come down [Violin Solo] [Bridge] Then a bell Not ours A pale stupid bell from the town It hit the peak like a law The circle flinched The fire knelt down He looked at the east like a debtor looks east And the night lost its nerve I was still on the rock I was still in the song The bell didn’t save me It only moved on [Guitar Solo] [Final Chorus] Bald Mountain Close your throat Bald Mountain Dawn took the host Bald Mountain Ash in the pine Bald Mountain Same peak tomorrow night I walked down quieter I walked down known Bald Mountain I left something of me on the stone [Outro] Don’t climb I would
