Dark Waters

Heed the warnings posted on the door What they mean, no one knows anymore Heads up high now, the worst has yet to pass Alive or not, all turns into glass In dark waters, deserts of old, jungles and bone, swamps unknown In dark waters, a stranger has come to bow Lavender fire, cinder to burn it down Mother superior, bound to the ground She met her match there, on that smouldering hill She heard not the cries of Black's broken will In dark waters, deserts of old, jungles and bone, swamps unknown In dark waters, a stranger has come to bow I cut the thread of fate And yet it loops right back Into the rock I make a notch From the Hall of Kings I watch My blistered body fall near the gate right at the wall To the mountains I belong I hold a torch up high It fills the Hall with light Tall stone pillars catch the eye On all my carvings hide As echoes fill my head I remember someone said so long ago That to the mountains I belong