Love Keeps Creeping

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

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 3]

I woke up standing in the yard at dawn

With mud beneath my fingernails

There's a circle burned into the lawn

And a trail of tiny nails

The neighbors say they heard me singing low

In a language I don't know

And my shadow on the kitchen wall

Is a stranger letting go

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

Rap Verse

Let me tell you what I found in the crawlspace

Bones arranged in a smile on the raw face

Of a wall that was never there before

Every night it knocks and I open up the door

Say a prayer with a mouth full of rust

Every saint that I trusted turned to dust

I ain't running cause I know it's in my blood

I ain't screaming cause it taught me how to love

Pre-Chorus

And you call it love

You call it love

Chorus

Can't you feel it creeping

Creeping up your spine

Verse 3

(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