[Verse 1] Thereβs a house beneath the lake Nobody goes there now The water learned its shape And silence keeps it drowned They say a girl once lived inside With constellations in her veins She disappeared one winter night When the black snow came I saw her shadow in the garden Among the dead white trees She held a silver key That stained her hands with bleed [Pre-Chorus] And every night The floorboards in my room Still creak underwater [Chorus ] Oh, the lake donβt give back names It only swallows echoes And the deeper that I sink The less I know Was I chasing her reflection Or the person I became? In the house beneath the lake [Verse 2] Thereβs a hallway in my dreams That never seems to end The clocks have missing hands The walls refuse to bend A raven waits beside the stairs Like it knows what I forgot While candles melt like frozen saints Around a photograph that rots Sometimes I hear her sing below Beneath the freezing waves Sometimes I think sheβs warning me Sometimes she wants my place [Pre-Chorus] And every time I wake up from the sound My lungs are full of water [Chorus] Oh, the lake donβt give back names It turns them into shadows And the deeper that I sink The colder I grow Was I searching for a ghost there Or just somewhere to escape? In the house beneath the lake [Bridge] I found the silver key Hidden inside my coat So tell me how it got there If I never went below And whose footsteps were behind me In the snow that final night? Why does every mirror in this town Refuse to show my eyes? [Final Chorus] Now the lake still speaks in whispers When the moon is hanging low And a girl walks through the garden Where the dead white flowers grow Some say sheβs waiting for somebody Some say she drowned years ago Some say the house was never emptyβ¦ And some say I never left at all.
