Dead Black Eyes

Deep and silent

Tidal current

Swallowing miles of shore

A shadow consuming the coastline

Mountains are islands and islands are no more

Swimming, lost in a nightmare

We’re sinking off to sleep in a liquid grave

Search in vain for solid ground

Seven hundred fathoms down

There will be no survivors

Only corpses in the riptide

Mighty Poseidon will have his way

Cities lost in a deluge

Another sunken monument to the dead

All along the ocean floor

Everything you’ve ever known

There will be no survivors

Only victims in the feeding frenzy

There will be no deliverance

Only corpses in the worldwide red tide

Sea and sun

And no other

Here they come

Eyes of murder

We gave our hearts but it could not be saved

We’ll lay the earth in a watery grave

And I’ll sing a requiem for you

Of gnashing teeth and dead black eyes

And as the screams fall silent

Another species cauterized

We’ll bleed into the water

And bleach beneath a blood red sun

No witness to the slaughter

But blackened eyes that overrun the world

All around you the water will rise

And the last thing you see will be

Dead black eyes

An endless horror wakened

A seething sea of Kraken

Something brushes past your feet

They don’t come to hunt

They come to feed

Mouth of madness

Open wide

Face the horror deep inside

The belly of the beast

All around you the water will rise

Flooding the world with a vengeance

Coming towards you the blackest of eyes

A murderous gaze in the waves

Mighty Poseidon will have his way

Taking the earth as his kingdom

Only oceans to mark where we lay

And circling fins for a gravestone

All around you the water will rise

There will be no survivors