THE HOUSE THAT BREATHES

# THE HOUSE THAT BREATHES

**[Intro]**
*One... two... three...*
*Don't look behind you.*

**[Verse 1]**
There's a house at the end of the road,
Where the windows watch the night.
Every door has a different name,
Every shadow holds a knife.

The wallpaper peels like dead skin,
The photographs blink when I leave.
Something whispers through the ceiling,
"You're the one we chose to keep."

**[Pre-Chorus]**
And the hallway gets longer,
Every time I turn around.
I hear footsteps coming closer,
But nobody makes a sound.

**[Chorus]**
**WELCOME TO THE HOUSE THAT BREATHES**
Where the walls remember me.
**WELCOME TO THE HOUSE THAT BREATHES**
Something underneath the floor is awake.

Kill the lights, lock the door,
You won't recognize this place anymore.
**WELCOME TO THE HOUSE THAT BREATHES**
Tonight... it breathes through me.

**[Verse 2]**
There's a dinner table set for thirteen,
But the thirteenth chair is mine.
Black candles bend toward the ceiling,
Like they're praying to something blind.

A music box starts playing,
Though nobody touched the key.
Then a little voice behind me says,
*"You finally came back to me."*

**[Pre-Chorus]**
The mirrors start to crack,
But my reflection doesn't move.
It smiles when I am screaming,
And whispers, **"You have nothing left to lose."**

**[Chorus]**
**WELCOME TO THE HOUSE THAT BREATHES**
Where the walls remember me.
**WELCOME TO THE HOUSE THAT BREATHES**
Something underneath the floor is awake.

Kill the lights, lock the door,
You won't recognize this place anymore.
**WELCOME TO THE HOUSE THAT BREATHES**
Tonight... it breathes through me.

**[Bridge]**
*Spoken, distorted:*
They told me the house was empty.
They lied.

They told me nobody lived here.
They lied.

They told me I had never been here before...

*pause*

**I LIED.**

**[Breakdown]**
The stairs are crawling.
The ceiling is crying.
The portraits are laughing.
The dead are arriving.

One door.
Two doors.
Three doors.
**NONE LEAD OUT.**

**[Final Chorus]**
**WELCOME TO THE HOUSE THAT BREATHES**
Now every wall has got my face.
**WELCOME TO THE HOUSE THAT BREATHES**
And every room remembers my name.

Kill the lights, kill the sound,
Something underneath is coming out.
**WELCOME TO THE HOUSE THAT BREATHES**
I hear it breathing...

**through me.**

**[Outro]**
*Music slowly dies.*

*One final whisper:*
*"Don't wake the house."*