Mad moon rising

Verse 1

I woke with the horn of a freight train

Pulling through my open window

The clock said three in the morning

But the sky was burning yellow

I could feel the pull in my chest

Like a tide that would not turn

Every window in the valley

Flickered lonely in return

Pre-Chorus

And the moon came up too fast

Too bright

Too soon

Chorus

Mad moon rising

Over fields I used to roam

Mad moon rising

Calling every sleeper home

It don't care about your crying

It don't care what you have known

Mad moon rising

Mad moon rising alone

Verse 2

My father swore he saw it once

When he was twenty-three

It hung so low above the barn

You could touch it from the trees

He packed his bags by candlelight

He never said goodbye

Just left a note that said beware

Of the ledger in the sky

Pre-Chorus

And the moon came up too fast

Too bright

Too soon

Chorus

Mad moon rising

Over fields I used to roam

Mad moon rising

Calling every sleeper home

It don't care about your crying

It don't care what you have known

Mad moon rising

Mad moon rising alone

Bridge

I drove the county roads till dawn

Past silos thin and gray

Every dog along the fence

Was barking at the day

The radio played a static hymn

A preacher counting stars

Said the moon had grown a second face

Behind the iron bars

Guitar Solo

Verse 3

Now I keep the curtains drawn at dusk

I unplug the telephone

I trace the cracks along the wall

My kingdom and my throne

But some nights I can feel it climb

The hill behind the ridge

And I swear I hear my father's voice

Cross the water and the bridge

Pre-Chorus

And the moon comes up too fast

Too bright

Too soon

Chorus

Mad moon rising

Over fields I used to roam

Mad moon rising

Calling every sleeper home

It don't care about your crying

It don't care what you have known

Mad moon rising

Mad moon rising alone

Breakdown

Moon

Moon

Rising

Rising

Moon

Moon

Rising

alone

Chorus

Mad moon rising

Over fields I used to roam

Mad moon rising

Calling every sleeper home

It don't care about your crying

It don't care what you have known

Mad