INTRO

(Underwater ambient synths, harp, reversed Welsh hymn, distant chapel bells)

VERSE 1 Reflective

In the valley where the children ran

Now only silence holds their names

Stone by stone, the chapel stood

But time and tide re shaped the frame.

Fields where fathers ploughed the land

Now deep beneath a foreign tide

Where once a tongue so proud was sung

Now ghosts of Cymru's past reside.

(Capel Celyn, a Welsh-speaking village, was drowned in 1965 to create Llyn Celyn. The village lost 12 homes, a school, chapel, post office, and cemetery all without Welsh consent.)

VERSE 2 Emotional

Capel Celyn, drowned in grace

For someone else’s thirst, they said

But what of stories, roots, and song

Of hearths gone cold, of tears we shed.

We lit no fires on moving day

Just watched them flood what once was ours

Our chapels drowned, our bells were hushed

By concrete wills and English powers.

(Liverpool Corporation was granted power by a 1957 UK Act of Parliament, bypassing Welsh objections. The dam opened in 1965.)

CHORUS (DUET – Soaring

Echoes beneath the lake still ring

Voices that no dam could drown

Hearts that beat with Cymru's fire

Though buried deep beneath the sound

We rise like waves in roaring skies

Our song the stone they couldn’t break

Remember us, remember truth

The echoes beneath the lake.

VERSE 3 Stronger, Defiant

I walked the path where sheep once grazed

But now it’s just a mirror's lie

Reflection hides what history holds

And no one's left to question why.

The language faded from the shore

But not from blood, not from our song

You cannot dam a people’s soul

We've been singing all along.

(The destruction of Capel Celyn fueled Welsh nationalism and campaigns for language rights, such as the founding of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg in 1962.)

VERSE 4 Fierce, Raw

My mother told me stories deep

Of ceilidhs by the candlelight

Now moonlight shivers on the lake

Where once there burned a village bright.

No plaque to mourn, no carved out stone

Just names that float on winds and waves

But still we speak, we still remember

Our history they could not cave.

(Llanwddyn, another village, was flooded in the 1880s to form Lake Vyrnwy. Homes, farms, and churches vanished beneath the reservoir.)

VERSE 5 (DUET – Expanding Truth

Esgair Wen was swallowed whole

A mountain farm turned reservoir.

And Hafod Fadog, lost to Llyn Celyn’s swell

No voice was asked, no vote by law.

They took the valleys, drowned the names

But we still rise with truth and flame.

(Esgair Wen was flooded for the Claerwen Dam in the 1950s. Hafod Fadog, another Tryweryn farm, vanished beside Capel Celyn, unmarked.)

CHORUS (DUET – Emotional Peak)

Echoes beneath the lake still ring

Voices that no dam could drown

Hearts that beat with Cymru's fire

Though buried deep beneath the sound

We rise like waves in roaring skies

Our song the stone they couldn’t break

Remember us, remember truth

The echoes beneath the lake.

INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE

(Guitar solo rises through harp and cello. Synths pulse like surging floodwater.)

VERSE 6 (DUET – Quiet, Haunting

No statue stands for what we lost

No justice carved in slate or glass.

But every ripple knows our name

And in each tear the moments pass.

Our Cymru waits beneath the blue

Not gone but sleeping, bold and true.

(Liverpool apologized in 2005, but there remains no official UK government apology or national monument.)

FINAL CHORUS (DUET – Triumphant

Echoes beneath the lake still ring

Voices that no dam could drown

Hearts that beat with Cymru's fire

Though buried deep beneath the sound

We rise like waves in roaring skies

Our roots run deeper than they know

We are the storm, we are the flame

The ones they couldn’t overthrow.

OUTRO

(Solo harp fades into ambient synth swell. A reversed Welsh hymn echoes faintly, like memory speaking through water.)

(Created By (𖤐𝕃𝕆ℕ𝔼𝕎𝕆𝕃𝔽𖤐) (2025)