[Intro]
Down where the spilled ale sleeps
Down where the old wood keeps
A secret older than prayer
Was breathing under the stair

[Verse]
We lifted the boards by the cellar door
And found no dust on the stones below
The air was cold as a widow’s ring
And the walls hummed low like a buried king

[Pre-Chorus]
The paladin whispered a broken vow
The mage said, It knows we are here now
The dwarf raised his axe with a thunderous grin

[Chorus]
Beneath the floorboards, under the flame
Something is calling each one by name
Beneath the laughter, beneath the song
A door has been waiting for ages long
Beneath the floorboards, buried and bound
The end of a kingdom is making a sound

[Verse]
The bard had no joke and the thief had no lie
The runes on the archway were opening wide
Bones of old guardians circled the gate
With hands still clutching the chains of fate

[Pre-Chorus]
The silver key shivered, the starlight spread
The inn overhead sounded empty and dead
And every old warning came crawling within

[Chorus]
Beneath the floorboards, under the flame
Something is calling each one by name
Beneath the laughter, beneath the song
A door has been waiting for ages long
Beneath the floorboards, buried and bound
The end of a kingdom is making a sound

[Breakdown]
Do not turn it
Do not speak
Do not wake what lies beneath
Do not open
Do not bleed
Do not give the dark a seed

[Bridge]
But fate is a cup that refuses to drain
It fills with our fear and it fills with our pain
The key met the lock with a whisper of light
And the tavern above disappeared from the night

[Chorus]
Beneath the floorboards, under the flame
Something is calling each one by name
Beneath the laughter, beneath the song
A door has been waiting for ages long
Beneath the floorboards, buried and bound
The end of a kingdom is making a sound

[Outro]
Down where the spilled ale sleeps
The sealed world opens its teeth