[Verse] The tide retreats, dragging bones from the deep stone quays fracture beneath the first scream Bells ring in discord across the harbor sailors drop their torches into the black water From the fog, a thousand eyes ignite each head sways like a serpent choir their breath the stench of old caverns their hunger sharpened by centuries of sleep [Pre-Chorus] No prayer survives this night The sea itself bends to the weight of the beast [Chorus] Hydra, breaker of empires, crowned in salt and stormlight Your coils constrict the island’s heart your voices drown the hymn of man [Verse] Each severed head becomes two more, their birth scream shakes the granite walls The harbor floods with boiling salt and blood ships dragged under like carrion into the deep The beast coils through the avenues Stone buckles, towers implode in its wake Steel bends useless in trembling fists The defenders swallowed by fire and tide [Bridge] From the throats of the beast, a chorus of ruin a shriek that strips marrow from bone The heavens turn ashen light drowned in a storm of wings and ASH!!! No saints remain, no altars endure the island is a grave before the sea [Final Chorus] Hydra, scourge of forgotten epochs devourer of citadel and flesh We are but sparks in the furnace of your hunger you are the tide that unravels all chains Ash drifts on the tide The harbor is silent Fires sink into black water And beneath, the hydra waits eternal
