Graveyard Liturgy

I came upon a ghost town at the edge of the October

plain

Where the church bell hung in splinters

and the preacher spoke in flames

A woman at the crossroads with no shadow and no name

She said the dead don't sleep out here,

boy

They just wait out in the rain

And every door was open

Every window filled with black (ohhh)

They whispered from the other side of the grave

Named the men who sinned and the sins that they made

In the hollow of that ghost town,

no living soul was saved (ohhh,

ohhh) They whispered from the other side of the grave

There was blood on the altar

and salt on the ground

Where the congregation gathered

but they never made a sound

I read the names carved backward in the stone

Found mine among the living,

found my father's in the ground

And the lantern light was dying

And the cold come rolling in (mmmm)

They whispered from the other side of the grave

Named the men who sinned and the sins that they made

In the hollow of that ghost town,

no living soul was saved (ohhh,

ohhh) They whispered from the other side of the grave

I laid my rifle down beside the well (ohhh) Some bargains can't

be broken once you've made them with the fell

They whispered from

the other side of the grave

Named the men who sinned and the sins that they made In

the hollow of that ghost town,

no living soul was saved

(ohhh) They whispered from the other side

(ohhh,

ohhh) From the other side of the grave