07. Ghatanathoa
By Unlife · Alternative Metal · From the album No Life Matters
Stone beneath the sea that never wakes
A throat of salt and silt
I wandered where the drowned light bends
Down corridors of ancient guilt
I saw the thing that has no name to speak
Its shadow heavier than the tide
The vault that swallows every waking thought
Where the living learn to hide
Come closer now
Feel the pressure in your chest
Come closer now
The silence is the test
Pressure in the marrow
The light came down and died
What the sea forgot to swallow
The night keeps safe inside
Ancient hunger breathing slow
A mouth that never learned to close
I walked the drowned cathedral
Where no bell ever rang
Come closer now
Feel the pressure in your chest
Come closer now
The silence is the test
Come down to the valley of grey flesh
Where the moon is just a scar
Come down where the tide rewrites the map
And the children of the deep are stars
Come down to the valley of grey flesh
I am kneeling in the salt
Come down where the skin forgets its face
And the nothing learns to halt
Ghatanathoa
Petrified
Petrified in place
Petrified
Frozen face
The vaulted dark breathes slow and cold
My lantern gutters low
A hundred years of tide erased
The way I used to know
The books I read warned everyone away
But hunger pulled me past the final gate
Now every mirror shows the grey in me
And the countdown to my fate
I bring you seaweed crowns
I bring you brittle bone
I bring you all the years
I spent alone
The reef keeps every shadow
The shadow keeps a name
And I am not the first
Not the last to sing this shame
Come closer now
Feel the pressure in your chest
Come closer now
The silence is the test
Come down to the valley of grey flesh
Where the moon is just a scar
Come down where the tide rewrites the map
And the children of the deep are stars
Come down to the valley of grey flesh
I am kneeling in the salt
Come down where the skin forgets its face
And the nothing learns to halt
Ghatanathoa
Petrified
Petrified in place
Petrified
Frozen face
Mother of the stillborn tide
Headless in the murk
You gave your children scales for hands
And mercy for the dirt
I trace the drowned processional
Where the congregation sleeps
And every stone that called your name
Was a promise that I keep
Come closer now
Feel the pressure in your chest
Come closer now
The silence is the test
Come down to the valley of grey flesh
Where the moon is just a scar
Come down where the tide rewrites the map
And the children of the deep are stars
Come down to the valley of grey flesh
I am kneeling in the salt
Come down where the skin forgets its face
And the nothing learns to halt
Ghatanathoa
Petrified
Petrified and pale
Petrified
Frozen in the gaze
Ghatanathoa
About Alternative Metal
A fusion of heavy metal with alternative rock elements, featuring unconventional song structures and eclectic influences that blend mainstream accessibility with aggressive instrumentation. Bands include: Faith No More, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden