Gothic dark pop, E minor, 98 BPM. Core instrumentation: deep resonant chamber strings, clanging industrial sheet-metal percussion, dusty vintage pipe organ, layered ethereal choir backing vocals, distant tolling bell effects, rich dramatic female lead vocals with soft operatic flourishes. Tone is coldly romantic, softly menacing, decadently mournful. Lyrics follow a jilted vampire countess lingering in a flood-ruined, ivy-choked Venetian palazzo at midnight, fixated on the hollow ache of eternal unrequited love, the slow rot of gilded excess, and the quiet horror of outliving every person she ever adored. Framed as a soaring pop hook anchored by gothic theatricality, echoing the accessible dark pop edge of Evanescence and Siouxsie Sioux’s sharp, morbid poetic flair.
歌詞
[Intro] [Verse] Water climbs the marble stair Salt is in my heavy hair Midnight bell begins to chime I am lost inside of time Velvet curtains start to fray As the moonlight turns to grey Every candle flickers low Nowhere left for me to go [Pre-Chorus] The canal is black as ink Watch the heavy silver sink I am left behind to stay While the world just rots away [Chorus] My heart is a hollow hall Waiting for your ghost to call Love is just a gilded cage Written on a bloody page I’m the queen of everything With a broken diamond ring Eternal and alone On a cold and flooded throne [Post-Chorus] (Ah-ah, ah-ah) Queen of the silent tide (Ah-ah, ah-ah) With nowhere left to hide [Verse] I have seen the empires fall Shadows crawling on the wall Every face I loved is dust Iron gates have turned to rust Still I wear the heavy lace Searching for a phantom face Hunger is a quiet sound In a city mostly drowned [Pre-Chorus] The canal is black as ink Watch the heavy silver sink I am left behind to stay While the world just rots away [Chorus] My heart is a hollow hall Waiting for your ghost to call Love is just a gilded cage Written on a bloody page I’m the queen of everything With a broken diamond ring Eternal and alone On a cold and flooded throne [Hook] Sinking down In this town Wear the crown Don't you let me drown [Bridge] Ivy chokes the balcony Drowning in this luxury Drink the wine, it tastes like lead I am living, you are dead Cold and white and never-ending Stop the lies and the pretending Every heartbeat is a lie I’m the girl who cannot die [Solo] [Chorus] My heart is a hollow hall Waiting for your ghost to call Love is just a gilded cage Written on a bloody page I’m the queen of everything With a broken diamond ring Eternal and alone On a cold and flooded throne [Post-Chorus] (Ah-ah, ah-ah) Queen of the silent tide (Ah-ah, ah-ah) With nowhere left to hide [Outro]
コメント (0)
読み込み中…