## “Down Where the Red Sky Burns”

[Intro]
Red sky burning, black chain turning,
Silver river, take us down.
Red sky burning, no returning,
Past the dead and underground.

[Verse 1]
On the silent squid-ship, cold and still,
Rigg poured acid on the helm at will.
Runes hissed out and the controls went dark,
Then five stepped through the crimson arc.

Boots hit stone and the air turned wet,
Tracks led onward where the dead gods slept.
Four felt a pull through the mire and rain,
But Rigg walked free of the unseen chain.

[Pre-Hook]
Mud to the knee, red in the sky,
Thunder rolled but nothing passed by.
Follow the footprints, follow the dread,
Down where the prisons swallow the dead.

[Hook]
Row, ferryman, row us down,
Past the fog where the lost souls drown.
Thirteen coins or a giant’s crown,
Row, ferryman, row us down.

Red sky burning, black chain turning,
Silver river, cold and slow.
We paid in steel, the deal is sealed—
Row, ferryman, down we go.

[Verse 2]
Through the swamp stood a marble lord,
Thirty feet tall with his leg chained hard.
Crius watched from the prison ring,
With Illithid stains on his hands like ink.

“They tried to command me, they entered my ground,
I crushed the fools and I ground them down.
The rest went deeper—your quarry still runs,
Toward the cage of the chained mad one.”

[Pre-Hook]
Don’t speak the name, don’t call his gaze,
Don’t draw the dark through the prison maze.
Find the river, bargain well,
Every road runs deeper into hell.

[Hook]
Row, ferryman, row us down,
Past the fog where the lost souls drown.
Thirteen coins or a giant’s crown,
Row, ferryman, row us down.

Red sky burning, black chain turning,
Silver river, cold and slow.
We paid in steel, the deal is sealed—
Row, ferryman, down we go.

[Verse 3]
The boat came gliding without an oar,
A hooded shape on the silver shore.
“Thirteen souls,” was the price he gave,
For a road beneath the prison grave.

No coins in pocket, no souls to spend,
But two black crystals made his silence bend.
Then Dino shook the ferryman’s hand:
“Name the beast, and we’ll clear your land.”

[Bridge]
Never drink the silver water,
Never let it touch your tongue.
One drop steals a name remembered,
Two drops leave the old songs unsung.

Never swim beneath the surface,
Never trust the fog below.
Keep your hands inside the vessel—
There are things you should not know.

[Breakdown]
Fire in the cave!
Valen lit the night.
Hammer through the smoke!
Leydrick’s aim struck right.

Jinks from the shadows,
Force against the stone.
Rigg cracked the giant—
Dropped him to one knee alone.

Dino raised the moonlit blade,
Cold axe falling, debt repaid.
One last cut, the giant fell,
And thunder rolled across the hell.

[Final Hook]
Row, ferryman, row us down,
Past the fog where the lost souls drown.
The giant is dead, the debt is bound,
Row, ferryman, row us down.

Red sky burning, black chain turning,
Silver river, cold and slow.
Mind Flayers fleeing, mad gods dreaming—
Row, ferryman, down we go.

[Outro]
Red sky burning, no returning,
Silver river, take us down.
Chains are calling, kingdoms falling—
Row us deeper underground.