DarkArc014
Ronja — another haunting track from our Swedish Sorceress
no cover no
Ronja emerges from the depths of a freezing Nordic lake to exact a chilling revenge.
"Can you feel something, very near?"
We bury our debts in the dark water and expect them to stay dissolved. We treat the past like canvas wrapped in stone, sinking it down into the bottomless black, hoping the surface stays still.
It never does.
On No Cover No, Ronja pulls a classic Scandinavian ghost story from the silt and drags it straight into the modern ritual circuitry of The Datura Tapes.
This is Scandi-noir stripped of its sleekness and re-engineered as an intimate, terrifying act of vengeance.
Driven by a deep, commanding feminine contralto and surrounded by dissonant, microtonal choral pads, the track rejects any easy resolution—there is only the freezing weight of the lake.
What begins as a fragile, shivering whisper under a pale moon slowly sharpens into an unavoidable acid-bass growl, a relentless ritual spell that climbs the bedroom wall while you sleep. It is a story of betrayal, the violent breaking of a triangle, and a soul pulled from the deep to walk the sour path of revenge.
“The betrayed woman coming back from the dead is a universal tale” Ronja says. “Female spectral power is often a vehicle for agency that many women feel is denied to them in real life. I wanted to write my own table turning ghost story and I’m not a little gleeful as the creeping dread of the wronged lover’s revenge escalates across the song.”
“I have to pay tribute to the Eurythmics for inspiration. Their song, Aqua, recorded at the height of their powers, where a woman describes her own murder has always stuck with me. My song has a little more epic melodrama to it, I guess I just got carried away in the story.”
There is no cover no.
Credits:
Vocal & Lore: Ronja
Audio Engineering: darkStylus / TDT
Visual Direction & Matte Layout: Rei Zamane (FugaceFugace)
Curation: Mujiki
Recorded on The Datura Tapes
“I’m not a little gleeful as the creeping dread of the wronged lover’s revenge escalates across the song”
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Yet here I am back, from the lake so cold
I never shiver now, nor grow old
Where you sunk me, all canvas wrapped
From that black I come floating back
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Can you feel something, very near
The whisper that you hear, in your fear
Behind every doorway, behind every tree
I want you to know that ] that is me (is me)
The thing you thought you saw the last of
The nothing you sought to cast off
As if “done with”, was yours to call
Shows you knew nought of me at all (at all) [ADLIB] at all
I am the cold breath upon you neck
But sadly my victory, what will happen next
I would you see me seething in my glee (my glee)
For it’s a thing you won’t see coming you see?
Hate From me For you (for you)
For how you lied, and were untrue
For How I Died, so shall you (so shall you)
My once lover, you’ll discover
My revenge is like no other
No no no, no lover no (love no)
In this land, there is no cover no (cover no)
All the way down, with heavy stones
Bubbles rising, my last breath alone
Bottomless black, I’m here at last (at last)
No life lies ahead (ahead) only past
Yet here I am back, from the lake so cold (so cold)
I never shiver now, nor grow old
Where you sunk me, all canvas wrapped
From that black I come floating back (come floating)
All Hate Comes from me
Onto you (onto you)
How you lied, lied a life untrue
The way I Died, (I died) so shall you (shall you)
My once lover, soon discover
My revenge shall be like no other
No no no, no lover no
For you (for you), no cover no (no cover no)
You scorned me scold, no longer charmed
Like it was I who chased you to her arms (her arms)
You two’s triangle tricked me, until the day
Until you knew it easier if I went away
Until the night when I clutched your note
That lead me to the dark place
I would float (I float)
Where you squeezed my throat til you took my life
And you took the boat, you took your knife
Ripped free my gown, then in canvas wound
And to great dark, you sent me down (deep down)
But you a fool you ignored the great full moon
That cast a spell so I could come back soon (back soon)
Now I return as the shadow (the shadow) at your door
Pooling ice on lovers bedroom floor
And I wait and I wait and I take my time (my time)
As I watch and I watch over what once was mine
In her big brass bed, you both lie so restless
From a roiling sleep you'll wake up breathless
Yes lover mine, no sleep, no sleep
As on all your walls, I creep, I creep
For I will revenge what was done to me (to me)
A hundred times, I shall visit on thee (a hundred times)
Yes, yes lover no cover no
For the ones who drowned me below (Me below)
That fat moons spell, cast to save
Dragged me back from my deep black grave
Remember her gleam on that deep dark mirror (dark Mirror)
Now you know from what you shiver
She looked down on the pale thing in her river
And cast the last of a great sweet magic she could give her
To pull me from deep and then send
My soul on the sour path of revenge
No no no, no lover no (love no)
For you, there is no cover no (cover no)
I'm pulled from deep, to sorrow send
My soul on the sour path of revenge
To my misery your soul I'll bend (my misery)
And at my choosing i'll make you end
And to make my curse so much worse (my curse)
You'll look on as I take her first
No no no, no lover no (love no)
For you, there is no cover no (for you no)
For wherever you trail across this land
You must know you’ll never (never)
Never escape your death upon my hand
