LOVE BEYOND THE SEALS

[LOVE BEYOND THE SEALS] (Lavinia’s Song) [Funeral bells. Slow, crushing guitar riff. A woman whispers from behind a locked asylum door.] [Verse 1] They called me Lavinia Whateley, The mad girl of Dunwich town. They buried me inside these walls And strapped my body down. The doctors spoke of nightmares, Of the blood within my veins— But I could hear Yog-Sothoth Whispering through the rain. Then they dragged in Herbert West, With death upon his coat. A broken man with restless eyes And madness in his throat. [Verse 2] He told me he could wake the dead With poison, blood, and sin. I smiled and asked him through the bars, “Can you get us out of here, then?” He held a glowing needle up. I watched it burn beneath his skin. He whispered, “This will set us free.” I said— “Oh no… not that green shit again.” [The riff drops lower. Charlotte gives a dark laugh.] [Pre-Chorus] We carved our names into the stone. We counted every guard. He learned the locks, I learned their prayers— Escaping wasn’t hard. Two condemned souls in separate cells, With just one wall between. I fell in love with Herbert West While planning something obscene. [Chorus] Open the seals— Let the ancient darkness in. Take my hand, my reanimator; Let the ending now begin. If this world would never love us, We will watch it disappear. I found Heaven in your madness, And Hell when you drew near. Open the seals— Let the stars fall from above. At the ending of creation, You and I will still have love. [Verse 3] Herbert raised the night watchman With his fluorescent cure. The corpse tore through the orderlies And opened every door. We crossed the blood-soaked corridors As sirens filled the night. Herbert held my trembling hand And led me toward the light. In Doctor Armitage’s chamber, Behind a rusted shrine, We found the book bound up in skin— The Necronomicon was mine. [Verse 4] Its pages breathed beneath my hands. Its letters knew my name. Nyarlathotep smiled at me From somewhere past the flame. I read of drowned R’lyeh, Where dead Cthulhu dreams. I heard the piping of Azathoth Beyond the cosmic seams. Herbert said, “We have escaped. We finally can be free.” I kissed his lips and told him, “The world must come with me.” [Chorus] Open the seals— Let the ancient darkness in. Take my hand, my reanimator; Let the ending now begin. If this world would never love us, We will watch it disappear. I found Heaven in your madness, And Hell when you drew near. Open the seals— Let the Black Goat’s children rise. Let the mountains split like corpses. Let the oceans eat the skies. [Bridge] [The music slows to a heartbeat. Clean, haunting vocals.] Herbert, will you love me When the sun no longer burns? When the dead crawl from their coffins And the last creation turns? Will you hold me in the darkness When the final church bell dies? Will you kiss me as the Old Ones Tear the moon out of the sky? [Herbert’s distant voice] “Even death could not divide us.” [Charlotte whispers] “Then let everything else die.” [Breakdown] [Massive guitars and pounding drums.] (cinematic Gregorian Latin chant, unaccompanied male choir, modal scales, sacred atmosphere, cathedral reverb, slow tempo) DAGON RISES FROM THE WATER! CTHULHU WAKES BENEATH THE FOAM! SHUB-NIGGURATH CALLS HER CHILDREN! YOG-SOTHOTH HAS FOUND HIS HOME! THE HOUNDS ARE RUNNING THROUGH THE ANGLES! THE COLOUR FALLS FROM OUTER SPACE! HERBERT LAUGHS AMONG THE CORPSES— AND I HOLD THE BOOK BEFORE MY FACE! OPEN! OPEN! OPEN EVERY SEAL! Let mankind finally witness What it told me wasn’t real! [Final Chorus] Open the seals— Let the end consume the dawn. Every kingdom turns to ashes. Every hope is dead and gone. But beneath the dying heavens, While the frightened angels flee, Herbert West will stand beside me For all eternity. Open the seals— Sound the bells beneath the sea. The world denied our love in life— Now death will set us free. [Latin Chant] [The instruments fade into a low drone. Charlotte chants as countless voices gradually join her.] Yog-Sothoth, porta et clavis, Solve sigilla, aperi viam. Ex tenebris surgite, Antiqui, Mare, terra, caelum pereant. Necronomicon, duc me ultra. Amor et mors unum sunt. Ia! Yog-Sothoth! Ia! Azathoth! Mundus cadat— Regnum veniat! [Outro] [One final distorted guitar chord.] They called me Lavinia Whateley— A mad girl they locked away. Now Herbert is my lover And the Old Ones rule the day.