[Verse 1] There’s 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 don’t 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] There’s 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 she’s 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 don’t 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 she’s waiting for somebody Some say she drowned years ago Some say the house was never empty… And some say I never left at all.
