The House Beneath the Lake
Dark alternative rock with cinematic atmosphere, gothic dramatic haunting female vocals, mysterious and emotional storytelling. Slow-burning verses with deep bass, reverb-heavy electric guitars, subtle strings and ambient textures. Explosive emotional choruses, epic, powerful dramatic voice goes up powerful and sudden drops down for impact, with powerful distorted guitars and dramatic drums. Vocals should sound intimate, hypnotic, slightly fragile in verses but intense and cathartic in the climax. Inspired by gothic rock, dream rock and cinematic alt-metal. Moody, nocturnal, ethereal, melancholic, abstract and haunting. Wide atmospheric production, layered harmonies, echoes in the background, underwater ambience, raven-like echoes, dark feminine energy. 4 MINUTES MAXIMUM, FAST INTRO
The House Beneath the Lake
Dark alternative rock with cinematic atmosphere, gothic dramatic haunting female vocals, mysterious and emotional storytelling. Slow-burning verses with deep bass, reverb-heavy electric guitars, subtle strings and ambient textures. Explosive emotional choruses, epic, powerful dramatic voice goes up powerful and sudden drops down for impact, with powerful distorted guitars and dramatic drums. Vocals should sound intimate, hypnotic, slightly fragile in verses but intense and cathartic in the climax. Inspired by gothic rock, dream rock and cinematic alt-metal. Moody, nocturnal, ethereal, melancholic, abstract and haunting. Wide atmospheric production, layered harmonies, echoes in the background, underwater ambience, raven-like echoes, dark feminine energy. 4 MINUTES MAXIMUM, FAST INTRO
Lyrics
There’s a house beneath the lake
Nobody goes there now
The water learned its shape
And silence keeps it drowned
They say a girl once lived inside
With constellations in her veins
She disappeared one winter night
When the black snow came
I saw her shadow in the garden
Among the dead white trees
She held a silver key
That stained her hands with bleed
[Pre-Chorus]
And every night
The floorboards in my room
Still creak underwater
[Chorus ]
Oh, the lake don’t give back names
It only swallows echoes
And the deeper that I sink
The less I know
Was I chasing her reflection
Or the person I became?
In the house beneath the lake
[Verse 2]
There’s a hallway in my dreams
That never seems to end
The clocks have missing hands
The walls refuse to bend
A raven waits beside the stairs
Like it knows what I forgot
While candles melt like frozen saints
Around a photograph that rots
Sometimes I hear her sing below
Beneath the freezing waves
Sometimes I think she’s warning me
Sometimes she wants my place
[Pre-Chorus]
And every time
I wake up from the sound
My lungs are full of water
[Chorus]
Oh, the lake don’t give back names
It turns them into shadows
And the deeper that I sink
The colder I grow
Was I searching for a ghost there
Or just somewhere to escape?
In the house beneath the lake
[Bridge]
I found the silver key
Hidden inside my coat
So tell me how it got there
If I never went below
And whose footsteps were behind me
In the snow that final night?
Why does every mirror in this town
Refuse to show my eyes?
[Final Chorus]
Now the lake still speaks in whispers
When the moon is hanging low
And a girl walks through the garden
Where the dead white flowers grow
Some say she’s waiting for somebody
Some say she drowned years ago
Some say the house was never empty…
And some say
I never left at all.