(Verse 1 – Slow and ominous, the coming storm) Beneath the waves, beneath the deep, Where nameless horrors writhe and creep, A captain waits with hollow sight, His sails are black, his eyes burn bright. The storm it calls, the tide runs red, The sea obeys the cursed dead. No port, no haven, none shall flee, When Noctilus wakes beneath the sea! (Chorus – A fierce war cry, the coming slaughter) Rise, rise, the dead men sail! Bound by blood and tattered veil! Bone and steel, death untamed, All shall drown in Noctilus' name! (A moment of silence, the eerie creak of ships, before the drums roll again...) (Verse 2 – The nightmare of the drowned fleet) A ship of iron, a beast of bone, A carrion throne, a kingdom sown. His cannons roar, his dead arise, No dawn shall break these ashen skies. With hands of rust and hearts of none, They march upon the burning sun. No treaty holds, no flags shall wave, The world shall sink beneath his grave! (Chorus – Louder, stronger, as the fleet marches to war) Rise, rise, the dead men sail! Bound by blood and tattered veil! Bone and steel, death untamed, All shall drown in Noctilus' name! (The song slows, the howling wind and distant screams echoing in the dark, before the final verse arrives like the crashing tide...) (Verse 3 – The final doom, the Red Tide’s hunger) The waters churn, the ocean weeps, For all that lives shall haunt the deeps. His shadow looms, his hunger calls, Till all the world beneath him falls. The lanterns fade, the black fog swirls, The mast is high, the sails unfurl. One final breath, one last refrain, Then all are bound to Noctilus' chain! (Final Chorus – Thunderous, triumphant, as the dead claim the sea forever) Rise, rise, the dead men sail! Bound by blood and tattered veil! Bone and steel, death untamed, All shall drown in Noctilus' name!
