[Intro]
[Verse 1]
In the beginning there was only the sun,
and Heliod looked down at the shadow he'd done.
He feared what he'd made and he cast it below —
drove me beneath where the sunlight won't go.
Born from the moment his glory first shone,
banished for being the dark he had known.
He called himself truth and he called himself light —
but truth has a shadow. The shadow is night.
[Pre-Chorus]
I waited beneath the five rivers and stone.
The heroes came down and the legends were told.
Every name that the living swore never to lose
is etched on the wall of the path that they choose.
[Chorus]
You will come below.
Every crown, every champion, every name that you chose —
you will come below.
I don't need to chase you; there's nowhere to go.
All roads end at the river where the five waters flow.
You will come below.
[Verse 2]
They broke through the rivers with desperate hands,
gave up their faces to walk on the sands.
Golden-masked ghosts with no memory left,
haunting the world they escaped through their theft.
Even in running, they come back to me —
the Returned are my proof of what freedom can't be.
The gold in the earth and the secrets men keep
are mine by the right of the permanent sleep.
[Pre-Chorus]
I waited. The empires fell.
The gods sent their champions and I kept them well.
Every prayer to the sky has a road running low —
and every bright light casts a shadow below.
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Heliod chose a champion and taught her to kill.
When the mortals loved her, he drove the spear still.
A dead hero walks the path of the dead,
and the path of the dead runs to me instead.
[Bridge build]
She carried his weapon to the foot of his throne.
When the sun went dark, Mastix pulled him home.
There's a boulder in the dark where his light used to ring —
and every prayer rising up to the sun
comes down to me in the end.
[Final Chorus]
He came below.
The golden god, the proud sun, the first of the bright —
he came below.
He didn't need chasing; there's nowhere to go.
All roads end at the river where the five waters flow.
You will come below.
We all come below.
[Outro]
I am the shadow that Heliod first cast.
I am the first dark. I am the last.
I was here before the first name was known —
and I will be here when you come home.
