The Wolves Are Singing Tonight Lyrics

There's a black dog howlin' past the old mill road

Bones in his belly, blood on the snow

Lanterns flicker in the widow's den

She don't light 'em for the living, but she still lights ten

Something moves in the pinewood gloom

Something calls in a long, low tune

The wolves are singing tonight

Soft as a prayer, sharp as a knife

Some will run and some will hide

But the wolves are singing tonight

There's a name carved deep in the hanging tree

The wind don't speak it, but it hums in the leaves

A boy went missing 'fore the frost set in

His mother still waits, but she don't ask when

Something stirs where the firelight dies

Something moves just past your eyes

The wolves are singing tonight

Soft as a prayer, sharp as a knife

Some will run and some will hide

But the wolves are singing tonight

No tracks in the snow, no knock on the door

Just a sound like you've heard it before

Don't listen close, don't sing along

Or you won't make it to the dawn