The Serpent

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

Down where the cellar stones sweat cold

A coil of moonlight starts to turn

Old prayers I whispered as a boy

Have curdled into something I can't name

Pre-Chorus

It waits beneath the chapel stair

It knows the shape of every sin

And when I kneel to beg for air

I feel it rising from within

Chorus

The serpent comes for me tonight

The serpent comes for me

With eyes like candles burning low

The serpent comes for me

(The serpent comes)

(The serpent comes for me)

Verse 2

My mother warned me not to stray

Past the graveyard's crooked gate

But hunger has a patient voice

And hunger taught me how to wait

Pre-Chorus

I lit a candle for the dead

I carved its likeness in the rye

And every word I never said

Came crawling back to testify

Chorus

The serpent comes for me tonight

The serpent comes for me

With eyes like candles burning low

The serpent comes for me

(The serpent comes)

(The serpent comes for me)

Bridge

Bleed the bell and break the bread

Bury every boast I made

Sing the psalm and strike the stone

Sing the psalm and let it go

Let it go

Chorus

The serpent comes for me tonight

The serpent comes for me

Its tongue is silver its tongue is flame

The serpent comes for me

(The serpent comes)

(The serpent comes for me)

Outro

The serpent comes

The serpent comes for me