Ripples in the night
Ripples in the aeternal flow
Ripples on that dreaming low
Haze inside, whips my soul
It’s the seal of the dream
Early morning I don’t awake
Deep in dreams I still dwell
After loving, whipping nights
My soul is dark, deep inside
Who are you, am I you, why?
Ripples in the aeternal flow
Who am I, you are me, when?
Ripples on that dreaming low
Night falls and pulls the dream
Whipping actions brings me in
Dark spaces surround us all
Is it this world, same as I?
Who am I, you are me, when?
Ripples on that dreaming low
Who are you, am I you, why?
Ripples in the aeternal flow
Starry sky hangs the Moon
Silence of trees in front of me
Cold dark breeze blows my skin
Hiding the exit of this dream
Who are you, am I you, why?
Ripples in the aeternal flow
Who am I, you are me, when?
Ripples on that dreaming low
Drowsy eyes
See the morning after
Loving whipping nights
Out of dreams
My soul is dark
Still inside
Deep inside
I wanted a gothic metal track that felt like fighting something that lives inside you and never holds a fixed shape. “Ripples in the night” comes from those nights when I wake up still half inside whatever I was dreaming, unable to tell right away which version of me is the real one.
An inner demon rarely arrives as a recognizable monster. It arrives as a ripple, a passing disturbance in something deeper and older than yourself, one you barely disturb for a moment before the surface settles again, though never all the way.
I left the word “whipping” in on purpose, stuck to both the nights and the actions, because I didn’t want this to read as soft atmosphere. Fighting what we carry inside has a real edge, a small violence under the haze, and metal felt like the only honest genre to carry that weight without smoothing it over.
I never let the song resolve the conflict, because resolving it would have been a lie about how living with your own demons actually works. There are still mornings I wake up unsure which side of the ripple I ended up standing on, and I suspect that never fully changes.