[Intro] [Verse 1] I woke beneath a sky that would not burn With ash in my lungs and no road home The angels turned their faces from my name As the gates below began to groan Beyond the doors stood citadels of bone Their battlements adorned with fallen stars While choirs of the damned sang out in tongues Echoing through wounds of heaven's scars [Pre-Chorus] A bell rang out across the deadened plain Calling me deeper through the dark [Chorus] Down, down into the fire I fall Past shattered saints and crumbling halls No hand of heaven reaches for my soul As hell unfolds below [Verse 2] A river black wound through the barren waste Its waters carried voices from the lost A hooded guide stepped from the crimson haze And pointed toward the depths at any cost His lantern cast its glow on endless thrones Where kings of dust still wore their crowns of flame And watched the ruins of forgotten worlds Drift through the void that consumed every name [Pre-Chorus] The earth gave way beneath my weary feet The abyss was opening wide [Chorus] Down, down into the fire I fall Past shattered saints and crumbling halls No hand of heaven reaches for my soul As hell unfolds below [Operatic Bridge] Deeper I sank where the black heavens bled Beneath a thousand moons of ashen dead The throne of the fallen arose from the flame And ten thousand lost souls devoured my name! A crown forged from sorrow A kingdom of pain Still the abyss called me Again and again... Again and again! Again and again! [Infernal Guitar & Harmonica Duel] [Final Chorus] Down, down into the fire I fall Past shattered saints and crumbling halls No hand of heaven reaches for my soul As hell unfolds below Down, down where the damned still call Beneath the darkness over all The final gate has taken hold And hell unfolds below [Outro]
