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Raised among cowards and liars

Men unable to look at themselves

Every mirror—all water muddied

Safer to drink the muck than see their own reflection

A shield raised against the sea

Recite the ancient words, rebuild the walls

Lights sing, rocking on the waves

Ignore the sirens’ voice and do not heed their song

Harden your hearts against their words

Our truth is singular our truth is all

The old madness shields, the old madness guides

Nemowfo eciov eht morfkcab

But the sea will open and swallow the island

The moon will pull the ocean like a veil

Over the corpse of men who could not see themselves

The slumbering god on the island slumbers still

The beating of hearts, the rise of fear

The shore climbs every moon, nearer still

The men still pray to their madness

Beneath the soil the dreaming god wakes

The ocean's maw will swallow the island

Inward facing teeth will shred every man

Their wishes and their prayers are finally answered

In oblivion they’ll never hear their song

And just a wound will remain in the sea

Where the ego of men had been

When the water heals nothing will be left

And the song of sirens fades from the island

So the Old One waits for the next

Man to build where everything sinks

In his dreams they find the earth

But all will pray themselves into death

Soften your heart and make yourself weak

There is no island on this sea

sllet snerisfo gnosehtos