(Verse 1) The skiff hit the sand of the silent shore Where the palms don’t sway and the gulls don’t soar. A stone-white villa, a tooth in the dark, She stood in the doorway, a flickering spark. "I’ve waited," she whispered, her voice like a snare, With the scent of dead lilies and salt in her hair. (Pre-Chorus) The air turned to velvet, the walls started to lean, The strangest abode that I’ve ever seen. Every shadow was breathing, every mirror was blurred, While she spoke a language I felt but never heard. (Chorus) Oh, the invitation was a velvet lie, Underneath a hollow, violet sky. She’s pulling the strings, she’s clouding the glass, Watching the hours and the sanity pass. A siren in silk, a ghost in the grain, Trying to crawl through the cracks of my brain. (Verse 2) She poured out the wine, it was thick and too red, "Stay in the moment, forget what’s ahead." Her eyes were two tunnels, her touch was a heat That hummed like a fever from my head to my feet. But the geometry shifted, the floor started to slide, There was nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. (Bridge) I saw the reflection—a glitch in the grace, A flicker of scales beneath that beautiful face. She wasn't a woman, she was something of old, With a heart made of iron and a hunger for gold. I broke for the doorway, I tore through the hall, But the stone turned to water and I started to fall. (Outro) No sand on my fingers, no salt on my breath, Just the damp, heavy silence of a room built for death. The villa is gone, the illusion is thin, I’m down in the dungeon where the nightmare begins. Locked in the castle, deep under the wave, The guest of a goddess, the ghost in her cave.
