Love Creeping

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

Something's scratching at the windowpane tonight

I keep the porch light burning

Down the hall a floorboard answers slow

And my blood runs cold

Someone's breathing in the attic room

Someone's walking where I sleep

I nailed the doors and locked the cellar tight

Still it finds a way to creep

Pre-Chorus

And you call it love

You call it love

Chorus

Can't you feel it creeping

Creeping up your spine

Can't you feel it creeping

It's been here the whole time

It wears my mother's perfume

It hums my father's hymn

Can't you feel it creeping

Crawling underneath my skin

Post-Chorus

Creep creep crawling

Creep creep crawling

Verse 2

The mirror keeps a face I never made

Teeth too many for one mouth

The dog won't cross the threshold anymore

He just trembles at the south

I found a locket in the garden dirt

With my name carved in the rust

And the moonlight bends around the yard

Like it doesn't trust the dust

Pre-Chorus

And you call it love

You still call it love

Chorus

Can't you feel it creeping

Creeping up your spine

Can't you feel it creeping

It's been here the whole time

It wears my mother's perfume

It hums my father's hymn

Can't you feel it creeping

Crawling underneath my skin

Post-Chorus

Creep creep crawling

Creep creep crawling

Guitar Solo

Bridge

I begged the preacher

I begged the priest

I begged the hollow man beneath the eaves

Something answered back in my own voice

Said you never get to leave

You never get to leave

Breakdown

Slow slow slow it comes

Low low low it hums

Hold the candle to the dark

Watch the wax become a heart

Chorus

Can't you feel it creeping

Creeping up your spine

Can't you feel it creeping

It's been here the whole time

It wears my mother's perfume

It hums my father's

Instrumental Interlude

Verse 3

The walls breathe out a language I forgot

Flamenco on the plaster

Every drum inside the cellar answers back

Like a heartbeat getting faster

My grandmother once sold her wedding ring

To a stranger in the rain

Now the stranger's at the table set for four

And he's wearing my own name

Pre-Chorus

And you call it love

You still call it love

Chorus

Can't you feel it creeping

Creeping up your spine

Can't you feel it creeping

It's been here the whole time

It wears my mother's perfume

It hums my father's hymn

Can't you feel it creeping

Crawling underneath my skin

Post-Chorus

Creep creep crawling

Creep creep crawling

Verse 4

I stacked the chairs against the cellar door

It just laughed and walked on through

It counts my ribs like a rosary at night

And it always starts with two

There's a room that wasn't there before

Behind the pantry shelf

And every picture on the mantel now

Is a picture of myself

Pre-Chorus

And you call it love

You still call it love

Chorus

Can't you feel it creeping

Creeping up your spine

Can't you feel it creeping

It's been here the whole time

It wears my mother's perfume

It hums my father's hymn

Can't you feel it creeping

Crawling underneath my skin

Post-Chorus

Creep creep crawling

Creep creep crawling

Can't you feel it

Can't you feel it

Creep creep crawling

Guitar Solo

Verse 5

(Gritalo) The floor is full of mouths tonight

(More mouths) And every one is mine

The vines have climbed the chimney to the moon

And the well has gone to wine

I carved your name beside my name

On the bone-white garden gate

And the thing that lives behind my eyes

Says you're a little late

Bridge

I begged the river

I begged the stone

I begged the hollow bell inside the bone

Something answered back in my own voice

Said you're never going home

You're never going home

Breakdown

Faster faster comes the drum

Deeper deeper grows the hum

Hold the candle to the dark

Watch the wax become a heart

Chorus

Can't you feel it creeping

Creeping up your spine

Can't you feel it creeping

It's been here the whole time

It wears my mother's perfume

It hums my father's hymn

Can't you feel it creeping

Crawling underneath my skin

Post-Chorus

Creep creep crawling

Creep creep crawling

Can't you feel it

Can't you feel it

Creep creep crawling

Instrumental Outro