Beach House – Elegy to the Void Lyrics

Beach House – Elegy to the Void Lyrics

Elegy to the Void Lyrics by Beach House

“Elegy to the Void” is a haunting track that involves themes of religion, witchcraft, and death. The title is a possible reference to Cathleen Schine’s 2011 review of Blue Nights by Joan Didion which shares the track’s title. The review begins:

Blue Nights is a haunting memoir about the death of Joan Didion’s daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne Michael, at the age of thirty-nine, death from an infection that began just before Didion’s husband, John Gregory Dunne, died suddenly of a heart attack at the dinner table. Quintana’s death was not sudden.

To your sons and daughters
Bending at the altar
Disappearing in the mirror

Watch it as it burns out
(It is just a flame)
Freckle faced young virgin
(It is just a game)

Platinum vision
Bringing you down again and again
Again and again

Black clock looming distant
You’re a great white
They were never listening
Waiting for the light to come again

Deep beneath the waves
Lilies of the day
Garden of remains
Diamond maiden chained

To your sons and daughters
Bending at the altar
Don’t you disappear in the mirror again and again
Again and again

Deep beneath the waves
White-winged birds of May
Run from hollow hills
Walk into the night

Deep beneath the waves
Lilies of the day
Run from hollow hills
Walk into the night