Veins Of Ash — Dance With Death (Official Visual Video)

I didn’t know I was the water. ― LYRICS: There she is I knew she’d come when I stopped moving She always came when I stopped moving I remember the way you moved through a room Like you weren’t afraid of what the room held Like darkness was just weather and weather always passed You found me in the grey Before I had a name for what the grey was You put your hands on either side of my face and said I see you And I believed you God help me I believed you And for a while I was warm enough to believe it back I didn’t know then what I was bringing with me Into every room we shared I didn’t know the cold followed me in And settled in the walls And started working on you quietly The way cold always works So we danced with death and called it living Turned the lights down low so we couldn’t see it standing there We danced with death and called it love The most beautiful thing I ever held Was already ending And I couldn’t feel it over the warmth of you I remember the specific weight of 3am with you The way your breathing changed when you finally slept The way I lay awake and watched the ceiling Thinking this is the thing worth staying above water for I didn’t know I was the water I didn’t know that every night I watched you sleep The grey was moving through the room The way a tide moves without announcing itself I thought I was getting better I thought you were the proof of it I thought the warmth meant the water was receding I was the water I was always the water And you were standing in it calling it love Because I needed you to I can see it now the way death moved between us Not dramatic Not announced Just the slow specific dimming Of someone who kept giving warmth To something that couldn’t stop being cold So we danced with death and I led us there I held you close enough that you couldn’t see what was behind me We danced with death and you trusted me The most alive thing I ever touched And I brought the death with both hands Into everything we were I want to stay in the memory before it shows me what it was I want to stay in 3am and your breathing and the ceiling And the specific warmth of believing I was getting better I want to stay there where the death hadn’t shown itself yet Where the grey was just weather and weather always passed But the memory won’t hold still It keeps showing me the edges The morning you stopped reaching first The way your laugh got quieter The way you started sleeping on the far side of the bed Without saying why AND I SEE IT NOW I SEE WHAT WE WERE DANCING WITH I SEE IT STANDING IN EVERY ROOM IN EVERY 3AM IN EVERY MORNING YOU WOKE UP LESS IT WAS NEVER THE LOVE THAT WAS KILLING US IT WAS ME IT WAS WHAT I BROUGHT INTO THE ROOM EVERY TIME I CAME HOME IT WAS THE GREY IT WAS ALWAYS THE GREY AND YOU WERE DANCING WITH IT BECAUSE I ASKED YOU TO AND YOU LOVED ME AND IT WAS KILLING YOU We were so close in that dark I remember that before I could name what the dark was doing You were warm and I was cold And the cold was patient and the warmth was not And I held you like holding you would fix me Like your warmth was something I could borrow permanently Without it costing you It cost you everything I didn’t have left to give I’m sorry I made you dance with that We danced with death and I didn’t tell you I brought it with me through the door We danced with death and you kept dancing Because you loved me and the love was real Even if what I brought into the room with me Wasn’t something love could fix I’m sorry about the dance I’m sorry I didn’t know what I was leading you into I’m sorry it took this long To see what was standing behind me the whole time ― Water Cold As Death — Veins of Ash. ― © VOA / Veins of Ash. All rights reserved. Lyrics written and owned by VOA. #VeinsOfAsh #WaterColdAsDeath #VOA #NewMusic2026 #AlternativeMetal #PostHardcore #AtmosphericMetal #PostMetal #EmotionalMetal #DarkAlternative #PianoBallad #HeavyPiano #CinematicMetal #PianoMetal #FryScream #CleanAndScream #ScreamoPiano #GriefMusic #SadMusic #MelancholicMetal #ConceptAlbum #SleepToken #Spiritbox #BMTH #architects