No Lock Can Make Me Low

Intro

Oh-oh-oh

Hoo-oh-oh

Mm

Verse 1

Cold walls keep the wind out

But they cannot hold the stars

Small window above my head

Months of counting every bar

I carve a note into the stone

A song that knows no cage

Pre-Chorus

Let the low drone rise

From my chest like thunder

Let the overtones sing

Of the plains I wander

Chorus

I am the mountain breathing

I am the river in the snow

My throat is the steppe at midnight

And no lock can make me low

I am the mountain breathing

Verse 2

The guard brings bread at dawn

Doesn't hear the hum I make

Every harmonic holds my home

The horses running on the lake

What they lock is only bones

The spirit rides the wake

Pre-Chorus

Let the low drone rise

From my chest like thunder

Let the overtones sing

Of the plains I wonder

Chorus

I am the mountain breathing

I am the river in the snow

My throat is the steppe at midnight

And no lock can make me low

I am the mountain breathing

Bridge

Khoomei through the iron door

Tuvan sky in every note

If the world forgot my name

Still the shepherd's song will float

Still the shepherd's song will float

Chorus

I am the mountain breathing

I am the river in the snow

My throat is the steppe at midnight

And no lock can make me low

I am the mountain breathing