[THE NIGHTWELL] [VERSE 1 — LOW COSMIC REGGAE] Creation tore the dark apart Stripped it clean from sea and star Heaven left no grave prepared Ocean split and buried it there Under depths no line could sound Night compressed without a ground Pressure taught the black to breathe Something opened underneath ⸻ [REFRAIN I — DEEP SOUL HARMONIES] Day breaks high—night falls deep Nothing buried stays asleep Dawn strips black from sea and air All that darkness gathers there ⸻ [VERSE 2 — BASS DESCENDS] Lost moons scrape the ocean floor Cracked worlds bleed from molten cores Storms that died before our rain Wake and tear the dark again Wrecks sail through collapsed starlight Trapped inside unfinished night Buried signals twist and blend Broadcasting how daylight ends ⸻ [PRE-CHORUS — PRESSURE RISING] Darkness packed from bed to brim Dead suns burst inside of it Pressure bent the sea awry Gravity deserted sky Dawn tore open overhead Then the well looked up and fed ⸻ [REFRAIN II — HARD ONE-DROP] Sun climbed high—the deep climbed higher Black tide swallowed solar fire Morning broke across the land Shadows rose without command Daylight screamed beneath the swell Heaven started falling through the well ⸻ [VERSE 3 — VIOLENT DUB SURGE] Midnights hoarded since the dawn Broke the surface, layered on Lost rooms opened in the street Ancient sleepers filled the sheets Battlefields resumed their rain Dead hands raised their blades again Extinct planets crossed the moon Heaven slowly ran out of room ⸻ [BRIDGE — MASSIVE COSMIC DROP] Seas tore loose and climbed the air Whales moved through the clouds up there Ships fell upward from their graves Stars went under tidal waves Mountain shadows left the stone Found the bodies they had owned Human faces filled the sky Mouths still moving, miles wide ⸻ [VERSE 4 — APOCALYPTIC SOUL CHOIR] Solar fire touched the rim Blackness folded over it Daylight narrowed to a thread Then the sun joined what was dead Earth rolled loose beneath the strain Continents broke free like chains Oceans poured beyond the sphere Space itself collapsed in fear ⸻ [FINAL REFRAIN — FULL CHOIR, CRUSHING BASS] No dawn rose—the heavens fell Sky and sea became the Nightwell Earth looked up through lightless foam Darkness finally came home ⸻ [OUTRO — LOW SOUL VOCALS, ALL DRUMS FALL AWAY] Far below, the stolen sun Burns where ancient vessels run From their decks, the dead can see Earth sink slowly through their sea
