Burial At Sea

In that lonely year of our Lord, 1693
 I sent for my loved ones far across the sea
 Well, I'd made a home and I'd made a name
 I'd made us a life in this land
 Then fate turned the tides when it dealt me
 A most miserable hand
 All of life's riches turn to dust
 When they're offered up to me
 All the world's gold is worthless
 When you've lost the only key
 It all comes back to me
 Burial at sea
 The voyage was quite uneventful
 The way it was meant to be
 When ugly events unfolded
 In the back Sargasso Sea
 From those hellish inky depths
 Rose a servant of the Dragon
 The lives of the crew and my family
 Were snuffed out by the Kraken
 All of life's riches turn to dust
 When they're offered up to me
 All the world's gold in worthless
 When you've lost the only key
 It all comes back to me
 Burial at sea
 As I make my way through the shallows
 My Bible stays dry on the shore
 I see them out there in the distance
 And the sight cuts me down to my core
 My shoulders slip under the water
 As my progeny hunger for more
 In silence Leviathan ushers us
 Through that great cyclopean door
 All of life's riches turn to dust
 When they're offered up to me
 All the world's gold is worthless
 When you've lost the only key
 It all keeps coming right back to me
 Burial at sea