Night Temple Engine

Intro

Mm

Night temple wakes

Dhun of the dark

Verse 1

Cold steel and the tabla rolling

Bare feet on the rust and stone

I trace the ash of a falling earth

With a whisper torn from my throat

Pre-Chorus

And the drone pulls me down

Down through the machines

Chorus

Burn me down in the engine

Grind my bones to the slow war drum

I am smoke on the crankshaft

I am dust when the long night comes

Drop

Fall

Fall to the iron floor

Fall

Fall when the temple moans

Verse 2

Fingers breaking on the sitar string

Gamak twisting like a wire

Meend dragging through the factory hum

And my voice is fire

Pre-Chorus

And the drone pulls me deeper

Down to the machine light

Chorus

Burn me down in the engine

Grind my bones to the slow war drum

I am smoke on the crankshaft

I am dust when the long night comes

Bridge

Dhol gone quiet

Only breath on the bansuri

Air that remembers skin

Air that will outlive me

Chorus

Burn me down in the engine

Grind my bones to the slow war drum

I am smoke on the crankshaft

I am dust when the long night comes

Outro

Mm

Night temple fades

Silence like a prayer