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A: You're lost in the sea You're lost with me You're lost in the sea You're lost with me And the blue sun king's oxen Leviathan Leviathan guarding the surface See how the human comes to misfortune See how the sea floor has many heartbeats, beat, beat This ecosystem, older than are we, Feeds on a dream: To be lost at sea It's easier to believe you deserve this It's easier to go along with fate It's easier to carve out a safe niche Find a dark crevice and wait out the aeons It's easier to pray god to save you Hear their laughter: The wind condemned you You're lost in the sea with Leviathan You're lost with me where we should not be You're lost in the sea with Leviathan Cursing the sea, forbidden from land With cetacea Welcome to the sea ABA: Drift across the benthos Maybe Enki guides you well. Eridian prosperity, Gifts of civilisation. Don't cry; Tears lost at sea sail on, lifeless and forgotten. Dispel these pale days; Would that this flood subside Were it then the fate for me, I cannot overpower her: That blue wish to eat the world. Don't cry. Tears lost at sea sail on, lifeless and forgotten. CAB: Kingship from heaven lowered too far, Cast adrift the deluge of dim mud. Great water men on the brink. A aba ab. (Ab.) Kingship lowered too far. Lowered too far. Lowered too far.

Taste the lightning's sweetness on the wind As it tears you from your resting place. Old sea gods speak rays of accusation. Hear them chanting: "We excavate souls" And taste the lightning Bolting down the deep See the masses See them decompose As up the current Something rides the light Power in a surge of electric branches Painful uproot of corpse mound derelict Up go the souls to feed the king Fading thunder And nothing remains At the foyer Of the global mains Yet there you are One the gods forgot Daren't go backwards Carry on your thought Estuary open ocean song Underwater tidal current pulls you on with its song Sea floor leaves you a colossal drop More things in heaven and earth and the ocean than are dreamed Feels like flying, falling down the deep Only me to guide you, the voice in your head, you and me Hear that rumbling from the dark below God made the abyss so He'd be not a-- Song from above and a song from below Current above and a current below Thunder above and there's pressure below Great fish above, great fishes below But you're heading downard, slowly drifting down, you've got time We excavate, we excavate time What pathetic existence, what did you learn from the gods? What will you learn? What's at the bottom? Made the abyss so He'd be not alone. Why did they spare your life? What did they intend? Great noise, and it's over; Sweet sensation. The gods are gone, leaving you. You hit the reef, take a breath. The least rumble still sends you into a wave function. Are you up above? Are you down below me?

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Past underwater forests And past high extrusive seamounts We find that place called Midnight. Total dark Total sound Only faintest trace of blue Hear a rush Fast approach Movement lifts you into a float Cold as hail Diving whale Midnight fills you in the whale Don't cry Your tears will do no good Swimming fast In the Midnight, don't you cry I'm with you, I'm the music I'm with you, I'm the voice in you And you have more to see See the whale already out of breath Its carcass cuts on the floor Feeding small fry Life survives Even on the shoulders of giants Go now, swim free Mussels let you past to the open vast Glowing fish swim through Let them direct you Midnight fast and blue

All it takes is one false step, just a glance over your shoulder And now you join the deep, sinking into your watery grave Sinking, in darkness you sink Sinking into the abyss Then something, strangest yet found, A hand lifts you up and onto flat ground Looks like you, exactly right, But for glowing skin of unholy light "Bringer Mine," says the double, "There's a haven in the deepest bubble" Look at your Doppelganger Flowing hair black as abyss "I'm impressed you made it Shrewdly you have played it Greater minds than yours have Given up the ghost here Dwelling on the worst fear Fallen to the siren song" All it takes to crumble in pressure: Something unexpected All it takes is one false step, just a glance over your shoulder You follow carefully down Deeper steeper into nitrogen town Step over rotting whale bone Voice inside your head contributes a moan Crashing sound, no one around Intense water pressure shoves you in ground Sinking, in darkness you sink Sinking, Siren of the Abyss Sinking, rockface on your skin Vox in capite tuo Sinking, self-hatred transforming Deus in abyssum irent Reach your arm up Reach for haven Sinking, in darkness you sink Sinking into the abyss Sinking, in darkness you sink Sinking until you sink free To the end, guess you stayed true Doubted me because I don't look like you Damn to your treacherous twin Underwater serpent mirror tailspin Now I am calling the shots See your story as if Gordian knots Cut through fear and vertigo Let the earth consume and see what's below

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I- The Holy Question At the bottom I can't believe your eyes Light pours out the Earth Illuminates the largest prison cell: ...God? Feet of brass, flesh torso plugged into the stone through writhing blue tentacles Arms covered in amoeba, and a featureless humanoid plastic face Some kind of blood's flowing from the holes dug by those 'tentacles,' ghastly strings In between the amoeba you can barely make out hundreds more of them This imprisoned titan must be at least thirty thousand feet tall He says he fears his God Taking the sharpest rock, you cut the titan loose from his bonds After all you have been through, you'll be damned if you fear the sea anymore Only takes several cuts, and the tentacles all withdraw from the trench "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" Down comes lightning Strikes the titan All of those tentacles concentrate on you now Steam vent opens beneath And you are dragged to Hell II- Molten Rock Dawn, I still wait for my God Despite the self-help of my faith Dawn, I still wait for my God Despite that this is Hell on Earth Eighty-five water men on the brink Of a vile planet-sized machine Absorbing blood of souls in her magma On fire, our Earth's insides eat you whole. Something like peace, something like heat is what we excavate. Something like change, something complete is what we excavate. Something like peace, something like heat is what we excavate. Something like change, something complete, Something living, something to eat. Something like feeling leaving your nerves trembling in their cosmically hard battered scream. Ready to end, ready to dissolve into atoms that are no longer your own. Powerful new voice speaks for you, has no room for competing voices in your head Dawn, I still wait for my God Despite the self-help of my faith Dawn, I still wait for my God Despite that this is Hell on Earth Dawn, I still wait for my God Despite the self-help of my faith Dawn, I still wait for my God Despite that you are now with Her. Deep at the lowest point of the sea, In magma, spirits like me fuse and Fission while we wait for the lightning. III- A Piece of Disembodied Melancholy Maybe Enki knows more about the sea than me Maybe I killed you by taking you through the sea Maybe my fate is best served in riding the lightning up Maybe my music crawls when what you needed was to swim Maybe you will see me again, we'll survive this breakup Maybe in total dark I can turn to a better hymn Close my eyes IV- At the Edge of Knowledge I can see the sun I can hear the dawn Thanks to faith in you, there is light I can see the sun I can hear the dawn I know I'll see you again, I'll see you.

City of old, towers of gold At the bottom of love and on the ocean floor A city vanishes in a blink Or was it ever even there?