Skeleton Woman

Old bones don't sleep
 Old bones don't sleep
 Old bones don't sleep
 They yearn to be once again dressed in the tears we weep
 In the tears we weep
 In the tears we weep
 She remembered the sun from the world long ago
 In the time before darkness and water
 She soon became bone from the fish and the foam
 In the fullness of time, we forgot her
 Old bones don't sleep
 Old bones don't sleep
 Old bones don't sleep
 They yearn to be once again dressed in the tears we weep
 In the tears we weep
 In the tears we weep
 A fisherman's line through a hole in the ice
 Caught this strangest of fish where she drifted
 Salvation came down from the world far above
 And the Skeleton Woman was lifted
 She buried her teeth in the hem of his coat
 As the fisherman tried to run past her
 In terror he fled through the deepening gloom
 With the rattle of bones chasing after
 Old bones don't sleep
 Old bones don't sleep
 Old bones don't sleep
 They yearn to be once again dressed in the tears we weep
 In the tears we weep
 In the tears we weep
 He cowered all night through the wind's longing howl
 From the monster he'd led to his home
 But dawn showed the man that the creature he feared
 Was twine all entangled in bone
 In pity he wept, and the tears trickled down
 From his eyes to the bones he regarded
 From their heat she wove life and a young woman's form
 With a cry was her silence discarded
 After ages uncounted of patience and hope
 Was the Skeleton Woman rewarded
 Old bones don't sleep
 Old bones don't sleep
 Old bones don't sleep
 They yearn to be once again dressed in
 the tears we weep (Old bones don't sleep)
 They yearn to be once again dressed in
 the tears we weep (Old bones don't sleep)
 They yearn to be once again dressed in
 the tears we weep (Old bones don't sleep)
 They yearn to be once again dressed in the tears we weep