[Intro] [Three-note distorted bass figure. Uneven kick drum follows like a failing heartbeat. Cold chorused guitar enters, then heavy chords.] [Verse] [Female lead, breathy but melodic] They’ve brought another doctor here He listens to my chest He watches how my fingers shake And tells me I need rest Arthur sits beside the bed And tries to make me laugh He looks away when I begin To cough into the cloth [Pre-Chorus] [Bass riff rises beneath the vocal] They’ve closed the curtains Locked the door I hear the footsteps Just outside the floor [Chorus] [Stronger female melody, heavy bass and guitars] There’s blood in the water There’s blood in the rain Everybody wants to save me But nobody knows my name There’s blood in the morning And blood in my dreams I wake with someone else’s hunger Moving underneath my skin [Instrumental] [Three-note distorted bass riff repeats. Guitars broaden into slow, heavy chords. Wheezing harmonium answers the melody.] [Verse] [More strained female delivery] They laid a wreath of garlic flowers Around my narrow bed The professor said to leave it there But I could hardly breathe I tore it down when no one watched And opened up the pane The night came crawling through the room As softly as the rain I dreamed I heard a distant voice Beyond the churchyard wall It didn’t speak a single word And still I knew its call [Chorus] [Rawer female vocal, louder guitars] There’s blood in the water There’s blood in the rain Everybody wants to save me But nobody knows my name There’s blood in the morning And blood in my dreams I wake with someone else’s hunger Moving underneath my skin [Instrumental] [Heavy descending riff. Harmonium sounds uneven sustained notes. Drums pound with irregular heartbeat accents.] [Bridge] [Instruments reduce to bass, harmonium, and voice.] Arthur says I’m getting better He kisses my cold hand I feel the warmth against my lips And something in me moves I love him more than anything [Brief silence] Why does he smell like food? [Instrumental] [Full death-doom guitars return with the original three-note riff. Drums become heavier without changing tempo.] [Final Chorus] [Powerful husky female vocal, increasingly inhuman] There’s blood in the water There’s blood in the rain Everybody wants to save me But nobody knows my name There’s blood in the morning And blood in my dreams I wake with someone else’s hunger Moving underneath my skin [Outro] [Heavy guitars fade. Bass and heartbeat kick continue.] Arthur, leave the curtains open I want to see the dawn [Heartbeat stops. One sustained detuned organ note.] [End]
