[verse 1]
the burden of blood
had continued to grow
but was nothing compared
to the horrors below!

[pre-chorus]
what i know
what i've seen
behind the silver screen
what terrible knowledge i glean

the lie of the sea
my sanity sweet
reality
bends in front of me

[chorus]
i never could say
i was promised the truth
when it all bled away
by the glow of the moon

i've wasted my chance
in the roar of the waves
i won't be saved
let the sanguine tide erase

[verse]
i did not kill my husband
i did not watch him drown
i didn't throw him from the deck
seven miles down

if you think i'm wrong,
then they're in your mind
i've seen it happen
a million times

[pre-chorus]
at the end of the world
your mind will unweave
in tangles and furls
of roiling sea

[chorus]
i never could say
i was promised the truth
when it all bled away
by the glow of the moon

i've wasted my chance
in the roar of the waves
i won't be saved
let the sanguine tide erase

[bridge]
fall
fall through the dark
far from the stars
till death will do you part

fell
broken the seal
defiantly real
the screams hereto reveal:

you
left him alone
he sank like a stone
twisting and writhing and bent from his bones

and you
shattered our chains
with his shattered remains
oh lord, what a shame

[verse 1a]
sanguis, osse, pestis, caro
sanguis, osse, pestis, caro

you fell to our tormented city
your mistake, but weve no use for pity

your black heart betrays your claims
of virtue, passion, love, and grace

[chorus 1a]
your world is nothing
but a drop in the sea
nothing to live for,
and nothing to be!

youve gazed to the depths
and youve sunk through the maw!
and sanity's an effigy,
filled up with straw!

sanguis, osse
sheep in the flock
sanguis, osse
thrashed on the rocks

sanguis, osse
the angel of death
sanguis, osse
with brine on its breath

[verse 1b]
i never thought i'd know
what lies beneath the soot,
the ash, the black waves crash

[chorus b]
crash over me,
all of my memories in their gaze

singing my dirge,
i walk through this purge in a haze

[verse 2b]
there are two bodies here
one stays, one disappears
and i'm not sure which one is mine

was i ever this thin?
was there this scorn within
the sunken mariana of my eyes

[chorus b]
did i fall through the veil?
did my destiny derail
did the glow of the moon
send me here to my doom

stare through the mirror,
ever getting clearer,
i see that the monster they're rearing is me

[verse 3b]
woke up again today
pushed fog of night away
i shivered at the things i dreamed

i saw an awful flood
the world drenched in blood
prayed for tonight a restful sleep

i lay back down again
let fog of night back in
but soon was shaken from my peace

i thought back to his face
his warm and full embrace
a man whom i had never ever seen

there is a beast in me
she longs to shatter free
from chains cemented by the brine

this girl knew the truth
the awful answers to
the man who permeates my mind

a rumbling begins
familiar, and yet
my brain is grasping at the straws

i've somehow seen before
this sight the world abhors
across the jagged cliffs i crawl

[chorus b]
oh, but the waves, they blot out the sun
just as in every dream of the torturous flood
the maw of the beast is consuming the sky
it only laughs when i question it why

why,
why,
why?

[chorus]
i never could say
i was promised the truth
when it all bled away
by the glow of the moon

i've wasted my chance
in the roar of the waves
i won't be saved
let the sanguine tide erase

over and over and over and over,
and over and over and over and over,
and over and over and over and over,
and over and over and over and over
again, and again, and again