[Verse 1]
Ash on the heather
Cold breath in the pines
Footprints fading
In a trail of ancient signs
You said the stones remember
Every vow
Every crime
So we climbed in quiet
Past the rusted
Twisted shrine
[Chorus]
Misty mountains
Hold your secrets
Hold your dead
I hear your thunder
Rolling just behind my head
If I fall here
Lay my name in lichen green
Misty mountains
Keep the things that I have seen
[Verse 2]
Black birds circling
Low over shattered cairns
Your hand
Trembling
Caught the silver in my hair
You whispered
“Turn back”
But your eyes were set on high
So we walked together
Into cloud that swallowed sky
[Chorus]
Misty mountains
Hold your secrets
Hold your dead
I hear your thunder
Rolling just behind my head
If I fall here
Lay my name in lichen green
Misty mountains
Keep the things that I have seen
[Bridge]
[Guitars surge
Drums rise]
I have tasted iron rain (oh)
Called a curse by my own name
Every echo sounds like blame
Every shadow speaks the same
Will the stone remember you
When it’s finished burning through?
Will it carve our story true
In the cracks and in the bruise?
[Chorus]
Misty mountains
Hold your secrets
Hold your dead
I hear your thunder
Rolling just behind my head (behind my head)
If I fall here
Lay my name in lichen green
Misty mountains
Keep the things that I have seen
Misty mountains
Keep the ghost that I have been