About this song
Kneel here on the wet stone, where the foam comes creeping in. A vampire priest of Innistrad trades the sun for the endless night, calling a drowned god home with the toll of a funeral bell. The depths are a church, and the deep is his.
Lyrics
[Intro] [Verse 1] Light your candles low, my faithful, the harbor's gone to grey, the sun has shut its eye on us and will not rise today. I have stood above this Drunau port for a thousand starving years, I wore a mortal's borrowed face, but the sea is what I hear. Kneel here on the wet stone, where the foam comes creeping in — I was a priest before the curse, and I am a priest again. [Pre-Chorus] They gave me endless midnight, they gave me the dark to keep, so I'll spend their gift of darkness calling something from the deep. [Chorus] Down, go down, where the drowned god dreams, where the cold tide buries the moon and the lantern-light. Sing him up, my children, by the bell and the brine, I traded away the morning for the endless night. Lower the dead to the water, let the old hymn climb — the depths are a church, and the deep is mine. [Verse 2] I keep my flock of mortals, I keep them warm and near, not from mercy, little lambs, but to feed the thing I fear. We dredge the silt and the sunken bone, we raise what the waves forgot, I lay it on the altar-shelf and I wait to see what's brought. A shape too vast for scripture starts to stir beneath the foam — the lord I served in life has heard, and he is coming home. [Pre-Chorus] The reading turns, the sign is read, no mortal hand can stem — the leviathan is rising, and the priest goes down with them. [Transform — Final Chorus] KROTHUSS. Lord of the Deep, older than the Kralmar's bones, I am the throat of the ocean now, I do not need a throne. The candles snuff in saltwater, the steeple cracks and bends, ten thousand of my hungry sons come crawling from the trench. Pray if you want a witness, but there is no shore, no light — the deep has swallowed the priest and the world, and the deep has swallowed the night. [Outro] Down... go down... the deep is mine.
