[Intro] [Lonesome singing fiddle and weeping pedal steel set a dark groove, followed by upbeat Telecaster twang and tight punchy drums] [Verse 1] November night, pitch black and raw Vättern yields to winter’s law Steamship rolling in the swelling foam Cargo shifting far from home Iron stoves and sewing machines Crates of steel from dead factories Bauer stands against the railing tight Staring down into the frozen night The gale turns fierce at Hästholmen light No course remains to save the sight [Pre-Chorus] The deck load slides across the wood No hand can save where giants stood Trapped beneath the salon floor The water pounds against the door [Chorus] Swallowed whole by the black lake deep! Fairytale shadows dragged to sleep! Monsters and trolls under shifting clay Where the morning light will never stay! No mercy in the gale’s decree The final voyage across the inland sea! [Verse 2] Sketches drown in the icy silt A monument to human guilt Pencil lines and woodland dreams Torn apart by broken beams Clawing fingers on the timbered ceiling Drowning out all human feeling The lighthouse stares through blinding sleet Silent witness to defeat Resting flat upon the muddy floor The steamship stirs forevermore [Bridge] The story ended The trolls weep in the dark November nineteen-eighteen Thirty-two meters down Down to the deep! [Chorus] Swallowed whole by the black lake deep! Fairytale shadows dragged to sleep! Monsters and trolls under shifting clay Where the morning light will never stay! No mercy in the gale’s decree The final voyage across the inland sea! [Outro] Vättern tiger. [Pedal steel trails off with slow acoustic fingerpicking and a final faded Telecaster chord]
