Justin Vernon
St. Peter’s Hood
[Verse 1]
It's a warm October night
Your light is on
And they're glistening sharp through the trees
A vision is stuck as a leaf
But your body moves from wall to wall
And I'm hanging on for your mighty fall
When the peels have slipped you baby
He dare call
[Verse 2]
And I'll hang up the phone
When I hear you drive
And I cut across the lawn like a surgeon's knife
And your body moves like a spin-less top
When I'm dragging you out, oh the tears won't stop
Honey how'd you have to do him
Or could you do it I could not
[Chorus]
And I bury you one way I never thought I would
Oh the crushing silence
Honey I never knew you could
On this deafening morning
St. Peter walks with a hood
Leave your shoe in the gateway
I'm coming on foot
[Verse 3]
So I take the knife and I drive it home
I have time and the courage
To drive it home once more
Of all my dreams to fail me
The one person that saves me
Of all the sins to nail me
And oh this pardon he gave me
And the wind break
I fall into the hole
[Chorus]
And I bury you
One way I never thought I would
Oh, the crushing silence
Honey I never knew you could
On this deafening morning, yeah
St. Peter walks with a hood
Leave your shoe in the gateway baby
I'm coming on foot
[Verse 4]
My cold body
Still warmer than yours
And it strangles the life out of me
Please have mercy on me
And your body moves
Like an ocean brakes
And the falls crashing down
I'm the beats that take
Forever in this hot, dusty grave
That's where we'll be
[Chorus]
So I bury you
One way I never thought I would
Oh, the crushing silence
Honey I never knew you would
And the deafening morning
St. Peter walks with a hood
Leave your shoe in the gateway baby
I'm coming on foot
Leave your shoe in the gateway baby
I'm coming on foot
Leave your shoe in the gateway baby
I'm coming on foot
Leave your shoe in the gateway baby
I'm coming on foot