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Otto Lindqvist

Under the Ice

Trained as a cellist and plays guitar like one; talks less than anyone in the studio

style

  • melodic doom
  • gothic pop
  • heavy detuned guitars
  • cello
  • male bass-baritone
  • mournful and vast
  • slow crushing groove
  • cinematic
  • finnish accent
  • mournful

the numbers

bpm
144
key
D minor
energy
0.75
dance
0.94
valence
0.40
vocal at
5.1s
length
4:34
language
Fi

lyrics

(wind over a frozen lake)
(mmm...)

Your skates still hang inside the shed
Laces stiff with what's unsaid
The lake refroze the day you left
Smooth as a lie, cold as theft
(cold, so cold)

They warned us of the early thaw
(the early thaw)
I still rehearse it, flaw by flaw

Under the ice — you keep the light
Under the ice — brother, goodnight
Under the ice — the winters stack
Under the ice — I can't skate back
(under, under)

Ma still sets your plate at five
Some rituals keep the dead alive
I eat in silence, clear it slow
Then shovel one path through the snow
(one path, one path)

Under the ice — you keep the light
Under the ice — brother, goodnight
Under the ice — the winters stack
Under the ice — I can't skate back

If spring must come, then let it creep
(let it creep)
The lake and I have brothers to keep

Under the ice — you keep the light
Under the ice — brother, goodnight
Under the ice — the winters stack
Under the ice — I can't skate back

goodnight... goodnight...
(ice groans, far off)