The old man before you Is not reality What I saw and tell you so None deemed it to be true A cry of dismay Turned my hair into gray And the odour of the sea For never shall abandon me The thunderous, raging void In which all oceans end Took me by supernal force Into the Maelstrom I descend! Flashing lights! Crushing sea! Thunder and storm came unto me! Blackened clouds and copper moon Eternity woke from it's slumber All day turned black - and night became The deeper I was swallowed the more was still A descent into maelstrom A descent into maelstrom Just how I could escape To this day I know not My Brig was torn to shreds And so the fishers lot! In my deep despair I jumped into it's eye It chewed me through and spit me out And so I found my way up high! Flashing lights! Crushing sea! Thunder and storm came unto me! Blackened clouds and copper moon Eternity woke from it's slumber All day turned black - and night became The deeper I was swallowed the more was still A descent into maelstrom A descent into maelstrom