[Intro] (Instrumental Solo) [Verse 1] Deep beneath the mountain's sleeping roots Past rusted mines and copper shoots Five walked forward where the air went dead Where madness breathes and no light led Beroth bore the unhallowed flame Chasing knowledge, chasing fame Arius held his holy light To face the things that hide from night [Verse 2] Ozone burned the breath they drew Copper coils and rusted screws Parchments stacked from floor to roof Scrawled with truths no man should prove Decay rates, unbound equations Madness written without patience And there upon the final page Trenzia signed her rage away Halaster gave this hollow ground For the secrets she had found But every truth she pulled apart Left another crack inside her heart [Chorus] Lightning crackled through the stone Trenzia worked alone Science bent into a knife Madness breathed in every life Copper veins and dead cold eyes Thunder sang through all the mines Far below where shadows fell She built herself a perfect hell [Verse 3] Barrels lined the dusted wall Silent, waiting, one and all Some held ore pulled from the vein Some held things that should remain When Grog rolled one out from the row A rotten hand tore through the snow Six ghouls poured out with hungry breath And the lab became a dance of death [Verse 4] Claws cut fast through shadowed air Driven by the dead's despair Zelprime drew and loosed and drew Every arrow found its due Wizkim faded from the light Nocked his arrow out of sight One clean shot before they turned The quiet death that no one learned Beroth's fire lit the gloom Arius raised the holy tomb And the dead shrank back from what they saw And the lab was quiet once more [Chorus] Lightning crackled through the stone Trenzia worked alone Science bent into a knife Madness breathed in every life Copper veins and dead cold eyes Thunder sang through all the mines Far below where shadows fell She built herself a perfect hell [Verse 5] The copper door began to hum Like distant thunder slowly come Sparks ran down its rusted frame No one dared to speak its name Even Grog slowed down his stride When the air began to bite Behind that gate the storm was born And the thing that she had torn [Verse 6] A skull of iron hung on high Wrapped in lightning that would not die Beneath it stood the thing she made Stitched from corpses she had laid Every bolt the skull would throw Made the monster stronger, slow The floor became a sea of fire Every step a burning wire [Verse 7] Then her laugh rang overhead Though long ago her flesh was dead They chant and pray and wave their wands While science holds the future's hands Lightning bends to my command Greatest mind in all this land But the madness in her tone Revealed the price that she had known [Verse 8] Beroth met her spell for spell Arcane fury breaking hell Arius raised the sacred shield Turned the lightning from the field Grog ran straight through fire and rain Every bolt just bounced again His hammer struck the copper floor And the whole mountain shook and roared Zelprime loosed a storm of steel Wizkim waited, calm and still One last arrow through the glow Straight into the skull she wore And the laughter died away And the storm began to fade [Bridge] Past the lab they found the cave Where the final secret lay Three ghasts stood guard over the dust Over what remained of trust Her bones lay scattered thin and white The truth no note had ever wrote Halaster had left her here To be the food of what she feared Only the skull was carried back A cage for all that she had lacked Trapped forever in her work The prize that every madman earns [Chorus] Lightning crackled through the stone Trenzia died alone Science bent into a knife Madness breathed in every life Copper veins and dead cold eyes Thunder faded through the mines The storm at last was laid to rest And its maker joined the nest [Outro] Beroth bore the flame back home Arius laid the ghost to rest Zelprime cleaned the blood from steel Wizkim vanished without tale Grog just drank and never spoke Of the night they broke the yoke And still the miners down below Whisper how the thunder goes And deep beneath the mountain still The copper hums, and always will (Instrumental Solo)