[Verse 1]
Blood runs free, down the river
I'm the weeper, the life bereaver
I cross Styx with coins of onyx
Without the trumpets and horns and pyre

[Chorus]
Embracing the Styx
Life is floating out, wave after wave
Embracing the Styx
I sail with Charon this day
Embracing the Styx
Life is floating out, wave after wave
Embracing the Styx
Me, my wrists and a blade

[Verse 2]
The final curtain, death is certain
Harpy sings, my soul is hurting
Razors, rope, mountains of dope
Does it matter? There's no hope

[Chorus]
Embracing the Styx
Life is floating out, wave after wave
Embracing the Styx
I sail with Charon this day
Embracing the Styx
Life is floating out, wave after wave
Embracing the Styx
Me, my wrists and a blade
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
In times of eternal darkness
In times of peace and embrace
When the minstrel of atrophy mock us
There's need for love and there's need for death
Too late for understanding, too late for your tears
I wait for the last descending
To the opal city and the flaming stairs

[Verse 3]
I surrender, return to dust
It must end here in daze and dusk
So I cry for all of us
And I smile as I die
As I die
A small breeze in time
A small breeze in time

[Chorus]
Embracing the Styx
Life is floating out, wave after wave
Embracing the Styx
I sail with Charon this day
Embracing the Styx
Life is floating out, wave after wave
Embracing the Styx
Me, my wrists and a blade
[Outro]
Waiting and waiting
For a moment of truth and a sun
Dreaming and dreaming
'Til the dreams were crushed by our hands
Great thoughts of a triumphing giant
Was given these golden-brown wings
A man who was an ant and a lion
Died on the isle of the king