The monster has awakened Emerging from the blackest depths with hunger obscene No inclinations divine could ever beget This unearthly duality of flesh and machine Obey The tyrant wills it so Abandon all your hope and perish Our puny arrows rendered useless Spears shatter off its steel hide From its mouth issues a vile shriek Which echoes through our frayed minds Its acid breath melts through the deck My men throw themselves off either side Human detritus in the water Soon to join their friends beneath the tides Obey The fates, they will it so Abandon all your hope and perish Steel yourselves or perish Steel yourselves or perish now! The cries of my men surround me The beast comes to reap its grim reward Exploiting our fruits of folly Devouring us one by one Facing the maw of the serpent Accepting my fate, I’ll join my friends The cause of their fate apparent now But too slow were we to comprehend