Visiting Kin

Intro

Verse

I left a world of peat and smoke

Turnip lanterns, farming folk

Now the lane is tarmac, lit and wide

A plastic skeleton waves outside

The roots grew fat and went orange, I see

Somebody carved one to look like me

Hook

Once a year the veil goes thin

I come back to visit kin

(knock) (knock)

Sugar now where the bread used to be

They still leave something out for me

(round the block)

Verse

A little witch with a pillowcase

Holds out a toffee and studies my face

'Nice costume,' she says, 'it looks so real'

I thank her kindly for the meal

Her dad waves a torch from the garden gate

He's got my chin. Great-great-great-great

Hook

Once a year the veil goes thin

I come back to visit kin

(knock) (knock)

Sugar now where the bread used to be

They still leave something out for me

(round the block)

Instrumental

Breakdown

[Spoken] "Created by DarkPrincess -- Royalty of the Night"

Verse

They've lost the reason, and that's alright

They still turn out on the oldest night

Lights in the windows all down the street

Strangers are sharing something sweet

Dressed as the dead, they laugh it away

That's how we did it, back in my day

Hook

Cockcrow soon and the veil pulls to

Save me a lolly, I'll come back through

(off I go)

Same kin, new outfits, a party on

Two thousand years and it's not quite gone

Verse

Over the hill where the barrow lies

Frost on the bracken, the rooks reply

I settle back under turf and heather

Tucked in tight from the Irish weather

A sticky wrapper still in my hand

The sweetest thing in this changing land

Refrain

Same time next year, by the crumbling wall

Leave something out and I'll come to call

(one more year)

Tell the little witch her eyes were true

The costume was real, and the toffee too

(I'll be here)

Instrumental