Lyrics
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
Light your candles low, my faithful, the harbor's gone to grey,
the sun has shut its eye on us and will not rise today.
I have stood above this Drunau port for a thousand starving years,
I wore a mortal's borrowed face, but the sea is what I hear.
Kneel here on the wet stone, where the foam comes creeping in —
I was a priest before the curse, and I am a priest again.
[Pre-Chorus]
They gave me endless midnight, they gave me the dark to keep,
so I'll spend their gift of darkness calling something from the deep.
[Chorus]
Down, go down, where the drowned god dreams,
where the cold tide buries the moon and the lantern-light.
Sing him up, my children, by the bell and the brine,
I traded away the morning for the endless night.
Lower the dead to the water, let the old hymn climb —
the depths are a church, and the deep is mine.
[Verse 2]
I keep my flock of mortals, I keep them warm and near,
not from mercy, little lambs, but to feed the thing I fear.
We dredge the silt and the sunken bone, we raise what the waves forgot,
I lay it on the altar-shelf and I wait to see what's brought.
A shape too vast for scripture starts to stir beneath the foam —
the lord I served in life has heard, and he is coming home.
[Pre-Chorus]
The reading turns, the sign is read, no mortal hand can stem —
the leviathan is rising, and the priest goes down with them.
[Transform — Final Chorus]
KROTHUSS. Lord of the Deep, older than the Kralmar's bones,
I am the throat of the ocean now, I do not need a throne.
The candles snuff in saltwater, the steeple cracks and bends,
ten thousand of my hungry sons come crawling from the trench.
Pray if you want a witness, but there is no shore, no light —
the deep has swallowed the priest and the world, and the deep has swallowed the night.
[Outro]
Down... go down...
the deep is mine.
