Wake the Dead

Lay her down
Pale as the autumn moon
Light the candles in the upstairs room
Where she walked
In a night blacker than bombazine
Remember her only as she was

When you were the spectral groom
And she the bride beside the tomb
We'll rise tonight, forever
Rise, together

They never sleep
They only keep on burning
In hell, it's said
The fires are fed
With yearning, yet
We'll wake the dead

Wake the dead
Wake the dead
Wake the dead
Wake the dead

When the clocks go back, we'll meet again
Where the fingers of the winter trees touch the sun
With the ether thin between our worlds
And as we end, so we are begun

Like ships
Thrown around in gales
With the ragged clouds
For their tattered sails
We'll rise tonight, forever
Rise, together

They never sleep
They only keep on burning
In hell, it's said
The fires are fed
With yearning, yet
We'll wake the dead

Tonight, forever
Rise, together
They never sleep
They only keep on burning
In hell, it's said
The fires are fed
With yearning, yet
We'll wake the dead

They never sleep
They only keep on burning
In hell, it's said
The fires are fed
With yearning, yet
We'll wake the dead