Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Spotify: pending
Apple Music: pending
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Lyrics by me: @Arystina
Musical composition and voice made by Suno AI.
Video/visualizer by Vizzy.io.
Image generated in ChatGPT and edited by @Arystina.
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This one has been sitting for a bit. I finally got around to doing the lyric video. I'm not terribly familiar with H.P Lovecraft's stories, but several people requested a song based on his tales, so I decided to go with his most well known creation, the Cthulhu mythos, while focusing primarily on the Eldritch universe as a whole, with it's mysterious and monstrous nature.
The words "Iä, Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn," is taken directly from H.P. Lovecraft's 1928 short story 'The Call of Cthulhu.' It translates to "Hail, hail! Cthulhu dreams/awaits." There is no true pronunciation of the language, as it was meant to be so guttural and alien that human vocal cords couldn't speak it, so I went with one of the more common accepted pronunciations for the purpose of this song.
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Lyrics:
Iä, Iä
Iä
Cthulhu fhtagn
Brine on the wind
Black on the tide
Something ancient opened its eyes
Teeth in the deep where the lost things sleep
Calling my name from the caverns beneath
Stars out of place
Moon waning wrong
Night speaks a language hollow and long
I hear it move through the walls of my room
Soft as a whisper
Sharp as a wound
Don’t look down
Don’t look deep
There are things that do not sleep
Iä, Iä
Hear them call
From the void beyond it all
Broken heavens
Bleeding seas
Kneel before the blasphemies
Every dream becomes a door
Every lock becomes no more
When the silence starts to sing
You belong to everything
You belong to everything
Cities below still wait in the gloom
Stone in the dark half-swallowed by doom
Eyes in the fog
Mouths in the rain
Truth cuts deeper than terror or pain
Books full of dust
Pages stained black
Whisper your name till there’s no going back
I taste the fear like ash in my chest
Madness leans close like a promise of rest
Don’t say their names
Don’t let them in
They will wear you from within
Iä, Iä
Hear them call
From the void beyond it all
Broken heavens
Bleeding seas
Kneel before the blasphemies
Every dream becomes a door
Every lock becomes no more
When the silence starts to sing
You belong to everything
Under the reef
Under belief
Under the panic
Under the grief
There is a pulse in the great unknown
Cold as a crown made out of bone
I was never meant to see
What was waking under me
Now the tide is in my veins
Now I drown in cosmic rain
No mercy in the spiral sky
No refuge from the watching eyes
No shelter from the nameless king
Only the hymn the old depths sing
Iä, Iä
Hear them call
From the void beyond it all
Shattered minds and severed seas
Bloom beneath their prophecies
Every dream becomes a door
I am not myself anymore
When the silence starts to sing
I belong to everything
Salt in my blood
Dark in my lungs
The old world wakes
And I come undone
Spotify: pending
Apple Music: pending
~
Lyrics by me: @Arystina
Musical composition and voice made by Suno AI.
Video/visualizer by Vizzy.io.
Image generated in ChatGPT and edited by @Arystina.
~
This one has been sitting for a bit. I finally got around to doing the lyric video. I'm not terribly familiar with H.P Lovecraft's stories, but several people requested a song based on his tales, so I decided to go with his most well known creation, the Cthulhu mythos, while focusing primarily on the Eldritch universe as a whole, with it's mysterious and monstrous nature.
The words "Iä, Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn," is taken directly from H.P. Lovecraft's 1928 short story 'The Call of Cthulhu.' It translates to "Hail, hail! Cthulhu dreams/awaits." There is no true pronunciation of the language, as it was meant to be so guttural and alien that human vocal cords couldn't speak it, so I went with one of the more common accepted pronunciations for the purpose of this song.
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Lyrics:
Iä, Iä
Iä
Cthulhu fhtagn
Brine on the wind
Black on the tide
Something ancient opened its eyes
Teeth in the deep where the lost things sleep
Calling my name from the caverns beneath
Stars out of place
Moon waning wrong
Night speaks a language hollow and long
I hear it move through the walls of my room
Soft as a whisper
Sharp as a wound
Don’t look down
Don’t look deep
There are things that do not sleep
Iä, Iä
Hear them call
From the void beyond it all
Broken heavens
Bleeding seas
Kneel before the blasphemies
Every dream becomes a door
Every lock becomes no more
When the silence starts to sing
You belong to everything
You belong to everything
Cities below still wait in the gloom
Stone in the dark half-swallowed by doom
Eyes in the fog
Mouths in the rain
Truth cuts deeper than terror or pain
Books full of dust
Pages stained black
Whisper your name till there’s no going back
I taste the fear like ash in my chest
Madness leans close like a promise of rest
Don’t say their names
Don’t let them in
They will wear you from within
Iä, Iä
Hear them call
From the void beyond it all
Broken heavens
Bleeding seas
Kneel before the blasphemies
Every dream becomes a door
Every lock becomes no more
When the silence starts to sing
You belong to everything
Under the reef
Under belief
Under the panic
Under the grief
There is a pulse in the great unknown
Cold as a crown made out of bone
I was never meant to see
What was waking under me
Now the tide is in my veins
Now I drown in cosmic rain
No mercy in the spiral sky
No refuge from the watching eyes
No shelter from the nameless king
Only the hymn the old depths sing
Iä, Iä
Hear them call
From the void beyond it all
Shattered minds and severed seas
Bloom beneath their prophecies
Every dream becomes a door
I am not myself anymore
When the silence starts to sing
I belong to everything
Salt in my blood
Dark in my lungs
The old world wakes
And I come undone
