Abyssopelagic : Cephalopodan Colossus (13124ft – 19686ft) Lyrics

I slowly enter the twilight domain

As on the surface, I'm laid bare for all to see

Their scuttling begins in droves they come to peer at what's within

They seem indifferent and continue in their blithe inquisition

The crowd dissipates and the Colossus strikes

The titan prowled the abyss for its next catch

Its chitinous beak swamps the aperture

In its attempts to lacerate, its arms swell in rapture

Hooks clasped as it rattles its new plaything

Side to side as I'm thrown against the ramparts

Animalia's largest eye locks with my own

The structure vitiates, the onslaught persists

The foundations warp until its grip can be held no longer

All functions stall as we go into free-fall

The giant seemingly listless and unwilling to chase a rapidly declining foe

The once moving cogs grind in their attempts to be released

All the while I am prepared to crash into the seabed

The shrapnel darts around and collides in this smoke filled chamber

The lesions pour out as the blood drains into the water

The innards of the vessel decorticate and the jaws of the sea will begin to masticate

As the smoke bellows and the chips form into cracks

All the dials overload and it begins its undoing, the final malfunction

There is no one on this earth that can help me

The enforcing stress soon to turn me into paste

The shrapnel darts around and collides in this smoke filled chamber

The lesions pour out as the blood drains into the water

This once hard shell is giving way and exposing me to all I've kept out for the longest time

At last the collision with the plain and the inevitable slip into the trench

I'm barely alive as the creatures gather again

They crawl inside bringing their benthic friends

Have I already entered a soporose state?

So my sanctuary is finally pierced and the insides begin to crumble

My body enveloped but for once there is no fear

I am warm and content in adulation

I feel the caress of their appendages brush my skin, I have felt love in its fullness

I am carried to the porthole where they merge to form a throne

As we stagger, over the edge, looking down on the Hadal Zone