Charon's Lantern Lyrics

Flipping the coin

Surface disturbed by

Metal and wood

Ferryman paddles

To soulless lights

Their radiance burning, blinding the night

With vacant eyes

Warriors, heroes

Skeletons able

To free themselves from endless sin

Lowly, the martyr,

Pushing on harder

Charon decides on a whim

All is but a broken dream

In hands that will return

To holding ashes turn to cinders

Filling up the urn

Blood and lashes calm the masses

Suffering adjourns

For peace and quiet, calm and riot

Charon's lantern burns

Slow falling rain

Petals crash like the wings of a crane

Into the water

Tartarus boils

There's no escaping

This mortal coil

Blacker than ink

Souls are so feeble

Minds filled with evil

Will they be able to swim?

Lowly, the martyr

Pushing on harder

Charon decides on a whim

All is but a broken dream

In hands that will return

To holding ashes turn to cinders

Filling up the urn

Blood and lashes calm the masses

Suffering adjourns

For peace and quiet, calm and riot

Charon's lantern burns

All is but a broken dream

In hands that will return

(Hands that will return)

All is but a broken dream

In hands that will return

To holding ashes turn to cinders

Filling up the urn

Blood and lashes calm the masses

Suffering adjourns

For peace and quiet, calm and riot

Charon's lantern burns

(Charon's lantern burns)