[Verse 1] I walked down to the black water line Where the reeds all bowed like guilty spines The moon hung thin as a bitten coin And the air smelled wet like a graveyard join I saw his boat in the ditch of night Tar in the seams and a lantern light He stood so still in a coat of ash With a hand like bone and a ragged sash [Pre-Chorus] He said, "You came too far" "Now pay in kind" I felt my name Slip out behind [Chorus] Take my coin Take my name Row me through That hungry rain Styx won’t sleep And neither will I Ferryman, ferryman Look in my eyes [Verse 2] He took my coin with a thumb of rust And the blade of the oar cut through the dust Every stroke made a hollow sound Like a lid being nailed on the world I found I saw pale faces under the skin Of the river where the lost go in Mouths half-open, hands half-raised Fading slow in the waters haze [Pre-Chorus] He said, "No songs" "No turning back" The current grinned A wound of black [Chorus] Take my coin Take my name Row me through That hungry rain Styx won’t sleep And neither will I Ferryman, ferryman Look in my eyes [Bridge] When the bank fell off into deep I heard my mother start to weep But the sound came from far away Like it crossed a hundred years of clay The ferryman stared, hard and cold At the sum of all the days I stole Then he leaned in close to the lantern glow And said, "The dead don’t get to go slow" [Final Chorus] Take my coin Take my name Row me through That hungry rain Styx won’t sleep And neither will I Ferryman, ferryman Look in my eyes Take my coin Take my name If I sink, let the river lie Ferryman, ferryman Row me to the other side
