The Dial Runs Low — Иван Крисанов

Текст песни

(Instrumental)

Count the teeth in the turning wheel
Name the cost of the things we steal
Every promise is stamped in rust
Every siren is trained to trust

Hold your breath
The locks are set
One more click
And we forget

Stay very still when the walls draw near
Keep your hands where the glass can see
I know the shape of the thing you fear
It wears your face when it speaks to me

Letters burn where the names were kept
Ash on the tongue, but the vow still slept
Cut the wire, hear the old command
Turn the key with a shaking hand

Down, down, the numbers fall
No door left in this counting hall
Say it once, then say it twice
What we buried learns to bite

(Instrumental)

Stay very still when the walls draw near
Keep your hands where the glass can see
I know the shape of the thing you fear
It wears your face when it speaks to me

The room goes quiet
The dial runs low
One last mark
Then let it go