Undine – The Price of a Human Heart

# Undine [Intro – Ethereal • Water Ambience • Soft Piano] [Emotion: mysterious, tender, dreamlike] Where the river meets the moonlight, where the silver reeds sway, voices rise beneath the water, remembering yesterday. They say the daughters of the deep were never meant to love the land... Yet one of them reached for a mortal heart and took his hand. [Verse 1] [Emotion: innocent, curious, softly awakening] She rose beneath the evening sky, with hair as dark as rain. She knew no sorrow, knew no love, until he spoke her name. She followed where he wandered, through meadows, wind and rain, and every breath she shared with him made her feel alive again. [Pre-Chorus] [Emotion: fragile, hopeful, intimate] She gave him all her silence... She gave him all her dreams... For one brief life above the water, she became what love could mean. [Chorus] [Emotion: aching longing, tender heartbreak] Undine... I gave the river all I knew... Undine... I gave my soul to you... I left the darkness of the deep to live beneath the sun. I gave away eternity for one unfinished love. Undine... Why did you teach my heart to love... If love was only meant to lead me back below? [Verse 2] [Emotion: warm, romantic, gradually uneasy] She learned the warmth of candlelight, the changing of the year. She laughed beside him in the sun, and wished to linger here. But human hearts can drift away, and promises grow cold. The river called her softly back, but still she chose to hold. She saw the distance in his eyes, she felt the silence grow. The life she dreamed would last forever was already letting go. [Pre-Chorus] [Emotion: wounded, fearful, desperate] She knew the river waiting... She knew the ancient law... But still she held his memory, and could not let it go. [Chorus] [Emotion: deeper grief, rising intensity] Undine... I gave the river all I knew... Undine... I gave my soul to you... I left the silence of the deep, I learned to breathe the air, I gave away eternity to find you waiting there. Undine... Why did you teach my heart to love... If love was only meant to lead me back below? [Verse 3] [Emotion: devastated, resigned, almost whispered] When all the final words were said, the river rose with rain. She saw the love she could not keep and knew she must remain. No hatred filled her final steps, no anger crossed her face. She walked beneath the moonlit sky and gave the world its grace. [Bridge] [Emotion: fragile, breaking, then peaceful] No curse was born from hatred... No fire filled the night... Only one heart breaking softly as the river took its light. [Final Chorus] [Emotion: transcendent sorrow, eternal love, release] Undine... The river still remembers you... Undine... The moon still follows through... For every heart that leaves the shore, for every dream that cannot stay, there is a voice beneath the waves that calls a lost love's name. Undine... You gave the world your soul... You gave away eternity to make one broken heart feel whole. Undine... Undine... And when the river meets the sea... Somewhere beneath the silver waves... You still belong to me. [Outro – Piano • Harp • Fading Water] [Emotion: peaceful, distant, eternal longing] The river keeps her secrets... The moon remembers too... And somewhere in the reeds at night... A distant voice still sings... For you...