Something’s Watching Back

Verse 1

Hollow sphere, seven inches wide

Hung on a cord where the shadows hide

Blue as the deep, swirled like a maze

Catch the evil eye, hold its gaze

Not here to scare you, not here to bite

Just a little guardian, burning light

But before the magic there was a job

They called it watch-ball, not witch, not hob

Chorus

Something's watching back

Through the blue and the black

Sapphire glass, tangled nest

Spirit walks in, spirit gets dressed

In glass... in glass...

Something's watching back

Verse 2

See who's coming up the garden path

Catch a thief before he laughs

Over the cradle, over the till

A parent's eye when the house is still

It's a lure and a cage, a friend and a threat

Dazzle the darkness, then don't forget

Wipe it clean or it stops working right

Absorbed too much, lost the fight

Chorus

Something's watching back

Through the blue and the black

Sailors' wives in the fishing towns

Hung the same glass where the lantern crowns

In glass... in glass...

Something's watching back

Bridge

Halloween's not all teeth and bone

Some of it's just glass watching you home

The buoy and the verdict tangled in one

A good thing wearing a dark outcome

Now it sits in gardens on a wire

German kugel catching sun, not fire

Art before magic, glass before name

People told stories... the stories came

Outro

Sapphire blue... still

Not always scary

Just glass... [breakdown]

drum solo

breakdown

heavy metal

Something’s watching back!!!!!!