03 - The Well Below the Well

[Intro | sub-bass drone | distant water echoes] Drop by drop The dark replies A second depth Behind the eyes [Verse 1 | slow descending melody | breathy close vocal] Stone mouth open Cold rope frays We lower our names Into older days Hands on the wall Salt on the skin The first well ends Where the next begins [Pre-Chorus | dripping percussion | faint whispered layers] Down where the black water sleeps Something below us breathes [Chorus | deep drone swell | echoing vocal] There is a well below the well Where the old names fell There is a voice beneath the stone Calling us home There is a well below the well No light can tell How far we go How deep we know [Verse 2 | hollow pulse rhythm | microtonal synth bends] Coins in the water Teeth in the clay Wishes forgotten Still know what to say A face in the ripple A mouth without sound The deeper we listen The less we are found [Pre-Chorus | rising tension | submerged backing echoes] Down where the black water sleeps Something below us breathes [Chorus | fuller low-frequency pulse | layered breathy vocal] There is a well below the well Where the old names fell There is a voice beneath the stone Calling us home There is a well below the well No light can tell How far we go How deep we know [Bridge | stripped arrangement | whispered vocal close-up] Do not drink Do not kneel What it gives It makes real Do not speak Do not swear The dark below Is already there [Final Chorus | slow ritual swell | cavernous reverb] There is a well below the well Where the old names fell There is a voice beneath the stone Calling us home There is a well below the well No light can tell How far we go How deep we know [Outro | fading water echoes | low whispered vocal] Drop by drop The dark replies A second depth Behind the eyes