The Heavy Deep

Cold black water pressing on the steel / Seven thousand meters in the freezing deep / Ballast dropping to the ocean floor / Heavy iron rising from the trench / Valves are opening inside the hull / Rushing bubbles hitting on the glass / Currents pulling at the metal fins / Upward motion through the crushing brine / Warning dials flashing red and green / Pressure lifting from the aching joints / Darkness fading into navy blue / Rising faster toward the upper crust / (Rising!) / (Rising!) / Breaking open through the crashing waves! / Golden morning pouring on the glass! / Yellow sun reflecting on the sea! / We return from the heavy deep! / Triumph forged inside the ocean trench! / (Golden morning!) / (Golden morning!)