The Mermaid's Curse

[Intro – orchestra only, then choir, then heavy guitar drops] [Verse 1] [Clean female voice, mid-range, no growl] In the depths where sunlight drowns and starts to rot, I have slept three hundred years in water's knot. People crossed the bridge above, they crossed with dread, But no one saw the bottom where my flowers spread. [Drums and guitars enter] Your ship shattered silence on the seabed floor, You fell into my eyes – and the curse was born once more. I forgot how to breathe without your aching glow, You brought me shells of gunpowder instead of rivers' flow. [Chorus] [Full orchestra, choir, double bass drums, voice aggressive] Lift me from the silt, give me veins made out of lead! I will sing so sweet and low – you won't leave until you're dead. Kiss my freezing lips until you grind yourself to dust. I'm a mermaid without prayer. I'm an ice blade – cold and just. I'm an ice blade – cold and just. [Verse 2] [Voice drops to lower register, threatening] You promised me a shore where houses breathe with heat, But your palms reek of gunpowder and deceit. Through the water I have seen your nightly, secret crimes: You drowned the ones like me, then counted silent chimes. [Guitar solo starts, voice overlaps] Now you're mine. Now you're a prisoner of salty amps and pain. I will tear from your memory every sunny lane. Leave you only with a hoarse scream and a mast in the sand. You wanted a mermaid? Here I am. I'm steel at your command. [Chorus] [Same, but with more aggressive guitar] Lift me from the silt, give me veins made out of lead! I will sing so sweet and low – you won't leave until you're dead. Kiss my freezing lips until you grind yourself to dust. I'm a mermaid without prayer. I'm an ice blade – cold and just. I'm an ice blade – cold and just. [Bridge] [Tempo slows, only strings and piano, voice clean and sad] If you only knew how it hurts down in the deep, Every single breath – like a knife across my sleep. I never wanted vengeance. I just wanted to embrace. But you came not to love – you came to erase. [Pause, then orchestra swells] Now you choose: either turn to water, or become my haunted dream. We are both damned. We are both a tie. We are a team. [Verse 3] [Tempo returns to fast, double bass drums, full power] I pulled your skeleton onto the moonlit shore, It was glowing like phosphorus from a forgotten war. I danced with it to the sound of metal, tears and cries, While your spirit thrashed – and froze into the cliff's disguise. [Key change up, voice hits high note] No more princes. No more lying oaths. No more fake light. I'm sailing into storms. Behind me – silver height. I'll carve upon your stone just one single sign: "A mermaid never lies. A mermaid is the brine." [Final Chorus] [Full everything, choir fortissimo, voice almost screaming] LIFT ME FROM THE SILT, GIVE ME VEINS MADE OUT OF LEAD! I WILL SING SO SWEET AND LOW – YOU WON'T LEAVE UNTIL YOU'RE DEAD. KISS MY FREEZING LIPS UNTIL YOU GRIND YOURSELF TO DUST. I'M A MERMAID WITHOUT PRAYER. I'M AN ICE BLADE – COLD AND JUST. I'M AN ICE BLADE – COLD AND JUST! [Outro] [Tempo slows, only cello and female voice, fading] [Spoken, but with reverb] In the depths where sunlight drowns…