The Strain Lyrics


Silent streets in the dying town

Staring windows of black void

Dreary strokes from a ghoulish belfry

Hideous figures gaze at me

Sly, glassy eyes that never shut

Unseen oddity inside the maze in the dark

Out to the Reef

Chanting in the dead of night

Can you hear them calling?

Drunk man says: “I have seen them

Dropping things down in the water

The Deep-Ones granted richness

In return of young blood”

“Swarms, everywhere, rattling our doors

Shots and screams, they come to claim what’s theirs”

Out to the Reef

Chanting in the dead of night

Can you hear them calling?

Here they come

Bastard spawn

Here they come

Shadow falls

I can hear in the darkness

Creaking stairs, secret footsteps

In bleak alleys they chase me

I must hide, but I can see

Coming from the Reef

Swimming in the dead of night

Under the moonlight they rise

Here they come

Bastard spawn

Shadow falls

Dreams come to show me what suggested by the mirror

We shall dive down in the depths and dwell in glory forever