What you can taste today, don’t wait for tomorrow,

Tomorrow may freeze you in silence and sorrow.

Fly like a phoenix once more to the flame,

There’s no time to bargain — the deep calls your name.

The chains start to shatter, they fall to the floor,

Black angels are coming — they’ll take me once more.

Monsters crawl on me, they’re dragging me low,

But the phoenix’s fire drives them where they can’t go.

The black gondola whispers of decay,

Through deserted houses, the frost eats away.

Seagulls trace the shoreline, circling above,

The tide softly carries dead souls once in love.

The Ganges runs dark, with a slow, haunting roll,

The black gondola drifts like a boat for the soul.

This is the last dawn I’ll ever see,

So carry me, gondola — to my destiny.

Before they betray me, before they confine,

The serpents are crawling, they mock and they shine.

So many questions, no answers to find,

So many seekers left broken behind.

The black gondola whispers of decay,

Through deserted houses, the frost eats away.

Seagulls trace the shoreline, circling above,

The tide softly carries dead souls once in love.

The Ganges runs dark, with a slow, haunting roll,

The black gondola drifts like a boat for the soul.

This is the last dawn I’ll ever see,

So carry me, gondola — to my destiny.

To find what you seek, you must first lose your way,

To take what you need, you must give it away.

The road to the future sometimes looks back,

And victory’s quiet, on a shadowed track.

The black gondola whispers of decay,

Through deserted houses, the frost eats away.

Seagulls trace the shoreline, circling above,

The tide softly carries dead souls once in love.

The Ganges runs dark, with a slow, haunting roll,

The black gondola drifts like a boat for the soul.

This is the last dawn I’ll ever see,

So carry me, gondola — to my destiny