[Intro] Beneath the house... the foundations were laid too close. Not deep... but deep enough. [Verse 1] They dug where no one should have dug Shallow pit beneath the floor Concrete poured over older stone That still remembered warmth Something older than the frost Stirred beneath the spade Not angry... not yet Just... aware [Pre-Chorus] A breath without lungs A gaze without eyes It tasted mortar And found it thin [Chorus] It rises through the cracks It presses from the walls The cellar is no longer empty It fills what space remains Watching upward to the light The fragile wooden world above It likes what it has seen And waits... and waits... and waits... [Verse 2] Footsteps cross the boards above Children laugh, clocks tick on They do not feel the pressure change The way the air grows thick It learns their shapes by echo Maps their heat through floorboard seams Finds the scent of coffee, skin, and rain And hungers... quietly [Bridge] I stood at the top of the stairs last night The darkness below was breathing Not in... not out Just... present It knows my name now It likes the sound [Chorus] It rises through the cracks It presses from the walls The cellar is its cradle now Its window to the day The surface world so bright, so brief So easily undone It likes what moves above And waits... and waits... and waits... [Outro] It has no name we know It needs none The house still stands For now waits... waits... likes what it has seen...
