Roxanne de Guise - Zeus

Beneath the roots where daylight fades, A silent kingdom waits in shade. No footsteps cross its endless halls, No morning enters through its walls. He knows the names the living lose, The final words, the last goodbyes. He keeps no promise to return, He only watches candles die. There is no door beneath the ground, No road that leads the lost back home. And every voice that calls above Will one day learn to speak alone. Hades, keeper of the silent, Where the forgotten disappear, You never call the dead to follow, You only wait until they're here. Hades, beneath your endless darkness, Every crown and name is gone. Kings and beggars cross the same path, And the night goes ever on. You see the lovers separate. You know the weight of every farewell, You know the hour that cannot wait. No gold can buy another morning, No prayer can turn the river back. The living fear the place you govern, But even fear must cross your black. Tell me, lord of what remains, Do you remember every face? Do you keep them in the darkness, Or does eternity erase? Perhaps the dead are not afraid. Perhaps the living are. Hades, keeper of the silent, Where the forgotten disappear, You never call the dead to follow, You only wait until they're here. Hades, beneath your endless darkness, Every crown and name is gone. Kings and beggars cross the same path, And the night goes ever on. When every heartbeat finds its end, There is no judgment in the darkness, No enemy, no final friend. Only silence. Only time. And the place where all things end.