Bones

(Bones) (Bones) (Bones) (Bones) Someone had scattered the skeletons The hip bones and the spines Piled the ribs and the shoulder blades Heaped the skulls into a mound (Bones) (Bones) I waited for many a day and night But found no one to ask These people, who had they once been And what had happened here? From darkness they arrived The spirits of the night The moon rose to its zenith Phospherous, blue and white From darkness they arrived Lucid and mercurial The creeping figures in the fog I stayed yet for another night Despondent and spiritless To watch this nameless patch of land A field covered by bones (Bones) (Bones) From darkness they arrived The spirits of the night The moon rose to its zenith Phospherous, blue and white From darkness they arrived Lucid and mercurial The creeping figures in the fog And came the dawn I knew Who these people had once been I had learned their story I had been taught their fate (Bones) (Bones) (Bones) (Bones) From darkness they arrived The spirits of the night The moon rose to its zenith Phospherous, blue and white From darkness they arrived Lucid and mercurial The creeping figures in the fog From darkness they arrived The spirits of the night The moon rose to its zenith Phospherous, blue and white From darkness they arrived Lucid and mercurial The creeping figures in the fog