05. Dagon
By Unlife · Alternative Metal · From the album No Life Matters
The tide pulls low beneath the harbor stones
Salt wine on drowned cathedral's bones
I knelt where the water knows my name
And the bells rang out for no one else
The priests all fled with their hollow tongues
The faithful scattered on the winds
But something stirred in the silt below
And the rushes bent to sing
The moon bleeds silver
On a sea that has no shore
The moon bleeds silver
And I answer to its call
Dagon
Father of the deep
Dagon
Underneath the sleep
Take my lungs, take my tongue
Swallow what I keep
Down where the light forgets
Down where the earth is wet
Down where the old blood settles
Down where the deep one beckons
The fishermen whisper at the dock
They nail their nets to the chapel door
But I have seen the fin that splits the smoke
And I want no face of yours
No god of light can hold this pain
No choir drowns this hollow hymn
I sing for what the water hides
And I am one with all of them
No heaven finds this shore
No shepherd bends this sea
The void is patient and it waits
And it has always wanted me
The rows of teeth in the murk below
The bells of rust in the drifting foam
I am the vow the water keeps
I am the prayer that ends this home
The moon bleeds silver
On a sea that has no shore
The moon bleeds silver
And I answer to its call
Dagon
Father of the deep
Dagon
Underneath the sleep
Take my lungs, take my tongue
Swallow what I keep
Down where the reef has teeth
Down where the wreckage sleeps
Down where the drowned still whisper
Down where the deep one beckons
Dagon
Father of the deep
Dagon
Underneath the sleep
Take my lungs, take my tongue
Swallow what I keep
Down where the cold has weight
Down where the dark innate
Down where the dead are family
Down where the deep one beckons
The water rises slow
(The water rises slow)
And I am not afraid
(And I am not afraid)
Dagon
(Dagon)
Dagon
About Alternative Metal
A fusion of heavy metal with alternative rock elements, featuring unconventional song structures and eclectic influences that blend mainstream accessibility with aggressive instrumentation. Bands include: Faith No More, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden