[Intro — A Cappella Male Vocal, Gradually Layered Harmonies] Four in the morning, the harbor is black. Nobody's sleeping on the journey back. The engine is humming, the gulls disappear. There's something beneath us that doesn't know fear. [Verse 1 — Rhythmic Vocals, Boot Stomps and Handclaps] We paid four hundred to sail that day. The captain just laughed as we pulled away. With a gap in his teeth and a grin on his face, He promised us monsters in this godforsaken place. The diesel was burning, the buckets were full. The wind started howling, the waves started to pull. We leaned on the railing, our faces turned green. And prayed to whatever was under the sea. [Pre-Chorus — Rising Harmonies] Oh, haul that line! Oh, hold on tight! There's something waiting out of sight! Oh, haul that line! Oh, can't you see? We're strangers on the open sea! [Chorus — Explosive Sea-Shanty Harmonies] Oh, down, down, down we go! Where the light won't reach below! Throw your line into the black, And the darkness pulls you back! Oh, haul away! Oh, let it be! There's something waiting in the deep! Most men fear what they can't see, But the deep don't need you! And the deep don't need me! [Verse 2 — Bouncing Bass, Fiddle and Electronic Percussion] We waited for hours with nothing to show. Just miles of water and darkness below. Then the rod bent double, the captain cried out, And every damn sailor came running about. We pulled and we hauled till our muscles were torn. Dragged something to daylight that wished it unborn. Its eyes were enormous, its skin deathly pale. A creature that never knew sunlight or sail. It thrashed on the decking and gasped at the air. We stood there in silence, pretending to stare. But nobody moved and nobody knew What the hell we had done to the thing that we drew. [Pre-Chorus — Increasingly Ominous Harmonies] Oh, haul that line! Oh, hold on tight! We dragged the darkness into light! Oh, haul that line! Oh, can't you see? The monster might be you and me! [Chorus — Explosive Sea-Shanty Harmonies] Oh, down, down, down we go! Where the light won't reach below! Throw your line into the black, And the darkness pulls you back! Oh, haul away! Oh, let it be! There's something waiting in the deep! Most men fear what they can't see, But the deep don't need you! And the deep don't need me! [Bridge — Beat Drops Out, Haunting Solo Vocal] Watch it drown in open air. Kicking at a world that isn't there. We pulled it from its silent home To prove we're not down here alone. It never asked to see the sky. It never asked to come and die. And as it struggled, full of fear, Tell me who's the stranger here. Tell me who's the stranger here. [Instrumental Break — Driving Fiddle, Hurdy-Gurdy and Electronic Bass] [Final Chorus — Full Harmonies, Pounding Drums] Oh, down, down, down we go! Where the light won't reach below! Throw your line into the black, And the darkness pulls you back! Oh, haul away! Oh, let it be! There's something waiting in the deep! Most men fear what they can't see, But the deep don't need you! And the deep don't need me! [Outro — Instruments Gradually Disappear] Four in the morning, the harbor is black. Nobody's sleeping on the journey back. We went looking for monsters beneath the sea. And brought one home. It was you and me. [Final Solo Vocal] The deep don't need you. And it never needed me.
