Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Key in the lock of a stranger’s dream
Dust in the throat of my new routine
Mom says “fresh start
” dad says “good bones”
Front porch sags like it’s hiding a ghost
Dog claws the floor as the boards all creak
Girl laughs once
But her smile looks weak
Family photo on a nail too high
Other people’s faces that will never die
[Pre-Chorus]
Welcome sign
Rotting in the weeds
Every house
Empty as my sleep
[Chorus]
Dead house summer
They’re calling my name
Through the drywall
Through the window frame (join us)
Every neighbor in the graveyard town
Saying “kid
Lay your living body down”
Dead house summer
Sun burning my skin
Only thing keeping all the dead from getting in
When the daylight’s gone and the shadows crawl
They whisper
“you don’t have to breathe at all”
[Verse 2]
Girl draws maps of the streets outside
All the shops with the “closed forever” signs
Dad finds letters in a locked desk drawer
Same last name scribbled hundred years before
Dog starts growling at the empty stairs
Cold handprints in the rocking chair
Curtains move
But the air stands still
Children in the mirror with their faces filled
[Pre-Chorus]
Church bell rings
But there’s no church there
Every echo
Like a broken prayer
[Chorus]
Dead house summer
They’re calling my name
Through the drywall
Through the window frame (come closer)
Every neighbor in the graveyard town
Saying “kid
Lay your living body down”
Dead house summer
Sun burning my skin
Only thing keeping all the dead from getting in
When the daylight’s gone and the shadows crawl
They whisper
“you don’t have to breathe at all”
[Bridge]
[Breakdown hits
Guitars lurch to half-time]
Line up on the sidewalk
Eyes like ash
Smiles sewn open
Teeth like glass
They can’t cross the yard where the sunlight bleeds
So they chant my name like a rosary of weeds
“Open the door
Open the door
Open the door
Be ours forever” (hey!)
[Chorus]
Dead house summer
They’re calling my name
Through the drywall
Through the window frame (join us)
Every neighbor in the graveyard town
Saying “kid
Lay your living body down”
Dead house summer
I’m holding this light
Mom and dad screaming as it slips to night
If the sunrise fails and the dark won’t crack
We move in
And we never move back
[Outro]
Dead house breathing in the early dusk
Every wall whispering “you’ll be one of us”
Dog starts howling as the sky burns red
Whole town waiting
For me to be dead
Style
metalearly-2000s metalcore with horror-movie tension: palm-muted drop-tuned guitarspinched harmonicsand halftime breakdowns under screamed/sung male vocals. verses crawl with dissonant arpeggios and roomy tomspre-chorus tightens into chugging tripletsthen chorus explodes melodic with layered gang shouts on the hook. bridge dives into a stomp-readysyncopated riff with guttural growls and eerie childlike backing vocals.
Prompt
2000s metal, Dead House, inherited old house from distant uncle, boy, girl, dog and parents move there. Everyone in town is dead and wants you to join them. They can't go in the sun.
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LunarOutput334GeneratedFeb 4, 2026
ModelAria v5
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