[Verse 1] We climbed by lantern bone Through pines that scraped the sky The map was ink and ash The guide would not meet my eye He said, "When owls go blind Don't answer if they call" But the wind wore human speech Along the mountain wall [Pre-Chorus] Stone by stone The path went steep Names were cut So deep, so deep Above the snow A shape began Like a crown Of rotten hands [Chorus] Mountain horror Hear it breathe Mountain horror Beneath the trees It knows my name It knows my fear Mountain horror Is waking here [Verse 2] At the ninth black switchback We found a chapel door Hung with icicles like teeth And nails across the floor Inside, the candles bowed To something on the stone A child's voice in the dark Said, "Leave me here alone" [Pre-Chorus] The guide fell back His face turned gray He kissed the earth And fled away Then from the cracks A choir rose thin Like hungry snow Was learning sin [Chorus] Mountain horror Hear it breathe Mountain horror Beneath the trees It knows my name It knows my fear Mountain horror Is waking here [Bridge] [Spoken] I saw the summit split Like a jaw unhinged in frost And there, inside the white Was every soul we lost [Instrumental Break] [Solo 1] [Solo 2] [Solo 3] [Verse 3] I ran through choking drifts With the chapel at my back The sky came down in shards The ravens formed a track Then from the frozen ridge A giant shadow stood With my own brother's face And a mouth of pine and mud [Pre-Chorus] I swung the iron flare It burned a circle red The thing that wore his face Just laughed and shook its head It spoke in voices I Had buried long ago "You climbed to find the dead Now let them take you home" [Final Chorus] Mountain horror Hear it breathe Mountain horror Beneath the trees It knows my name It knows my fear Mountain horror Is waking here Mountain horror No god can save Mountain horror I feed the grave I hear it sing I hear it roar Mountain horror Forevermore [Outro] The dawn came thin and pale No footprints in the snow Only my breath, alone And a trail of stone-cold crows
