Open The Gates

[Verse 1] Rust on the sign at the end of the road Letters half-gone But the name still shows New Moon Asylum Paint peeling in streaks Windows like eye sockets Empty and bleak [Pre-Chorus] They say they closed it overnight Locked the doors and killed the lights But in the cracks Behind the stone Something claws its way back home [Chorus] Open the gates Hear the hinges cry Let the lost patients pour from the dark of your mind Open the gates Feel the cold air crawl New Moon Asylum wants you It wants you most of all [Verse 2] Wheelchair in the hallway Still rocking on its own Charts on the counter Every photograph a ghost Names crossed in red ink, scratched in plaster with fingernail lines “Doctor Please find me”—frozen in time [Pre-Chorus] Footsteps echo Not quite mine Shadows twitch in crooked lines Nurses’ shoes on empty tiles Softly pacing Patient smiles [Chorus] Open the gates Hear the hinges cry Let the lost patients pour from the dark of your mind Open the gates Feel the cold air crawl New Moon Asylum wants you It wants you most of all [Bridge] Voices in the vents hum “Stay... Stay...Stay” Every locked door whispers your name Crosses on the walls turn black Then fade Someone’s breathing right behind you in the hallway haze (...stay) (...stay) (...stay) [Chorus] Open the gates Let the dead file in All the broken whispers begging you to let them in Open the gates You can’t leave this hall New Moon Asylum owns you It owns you Body and soul [Outro] [Band drops to reverb-soaked whispers] Key in the rust Twist till it breaks In the dark In the dust You already opened the gates