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The Derelict AlertFour days out of AuklandWe picked up survivors of a drifting wreck A curious breed from the southern seas They carried an idol of a loathsome god Deformed and wretched Peeling skin and distended eyes Pilgrims searching for a promised land Hidden beneath the waves The old ones will rise again Their shaman uttered through ulcered lips It was then that the fiends took arms Stormed the bridge and captured the ship They set course for a storm Building upon the eastern horizon And fell upon the crew With twisted knives teeth and claws From the waves Rise gruesome spires Siesmic effigy From primal days Oh behold Rising from the sea A million years of screaming terror insanity and grief Don't look to christ to save our souls The sun has died in the leaden skies For these are the final days We approached an island Newly risen from the sea Upon it stood a collosal city The kingdom of the beast Our captors, rejoicing fiends Dragged us all ashore In a screaming frenzy Forced us to open a titanic door From the bowels of the festering pit We heard the tyrants call A slithering horror A mountain of flesh From the darkness the nightmare crawled Stars wheeled strange bells peeled Madness a thousand ways As we beheld the lord of R'lyeh Herald of the end of days |