The Red Room Blues

Verse 1

Pines press against

The jagged glass

Rain rot on the red cedar

Cold water running thin

Searching the silt

Sifting the sand

Searching the stones

Blue spruce

Cold truth

Chorus

Is it him

Is it you

Walking backwards

Through the curtain

Walking backwards

To the wood

Walking backwards

Into the gloom

It is happening again

Verse 2

Static salt

Dull humming in the wire

Pale grease on the radiator

The cherry pie tastes like iron

Smoke rises

Smoke stalls

Smoke chokes

A sparrow in a suitcase

Folded double

Stuck between floors

Chorus

Is it him

Is it you

Walking backwards

Through the curtain

Walking backwards

To the wood

Walking backwards

Into the gloom

It is happening again

Bridge

Fire walk with me

Fire talk to me

Fire sleep with me

Under the sycamores

The owl is watching

The owl is hunger

The owl is heavy

Black oil

Deep soil

Chorus

Is it him

Is it you

Walking backwards

Through the curtain

Walking backwards

To the wood

Walking backwards

Into the gloom

It is happening again

Outro

I see you

In the mirror

In the shadow

Let's rock

Let's go

Let's sink

Beneath the falls

Goodbye my friend

Goodbye my twin