[Intro] Five hundred winters under black water No moon, no wind, no land Only the mast and the pressure Only the promise that death would understand [Verse 1] They nailed the dawn shut over my deck And dressed the sea in chains My crew went quiet beneath their crowns While heaven called it mercy again I found you bound to a stone altar Thirteen with salt in your eyes I cut the ropes, I gave you a name I taught your frightened heart how to survive [Pre-Chorus] You said they held your brother They swore the gates would part I saw the lie too late When a spear pierced your heart [Chorus] Lyra, you left me where the cold won’t end With every breath returning me again The gods took everything they could take But spite kept beating beneath the wake Now Silas calls through the deepest blue And I rise with the dead still tied to you I am not forgiven, I am not free I am the storm they buried in the sea [Verse 2] The Leviathan’s Wake sank without a prayer Past pressure, past the sun My wrists stayed locked to the tallest mast While the black tide made me come undone I drowned, revived, drowned, revived Until my thoughts grew dim Faces bloomed in the freezing dark Then vanished, leaving nothing in No phantom crew, no whispered shore No dream left to defend Just pain arranged in perfect circles And a rage that would not bend [Pre-Chorus] I counted every heartbeat Like waves against the shore When silence took the last hallucination I became the silence’s war [Chorus] Lyra, you left me where the cold won’t end With every breath returning me again The gods took everything they could take But spite kept beating beneath the wake Now Silas calls through the deepest blue And I rise with the dead still tied to you I am not forgiven, I am not free I am the storm they buried in the sea [Bridge] Silas, your summoning cuts through the trench A thread of fire in the flood I hear a voice beyond the pressure I feel the iron answer blood Do not ask me to be gentle Do not ask me to forget I carried five hundred years alone And I have not finished yet [Final Chorus] Lyra, I remember the altar stone The bargain built from borrowed hope They gave you lies, they gave me chains Then fed our names to depthless rain Now Silas calls and the black sea parts I bring the drowned inside my heart I am not forgiven, I am not free I am the dread beneath the sea [Outro] The mast breaks loose The trench exhales The old queen wakes And the heavens pale
