The Tale of the SMS Lebensraum

from Peste de la Mer by WytchCrypt

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The Tale of the SMS Lebensraum

Prepping for an ocean salvage
Hunting an elusive ghost ship
All alone among the ice floes - we will

Sail to the deep-sea graveyard
50 fathoms on the surface
Fearless as our crew and captain - search for

What has been a myth and legend
Drifting in the North Atlantic
80 years and never heard from

Deutschland bound
Stocked with gold
Stolen treasure

Plundered from a northern convoy
Taken by a German warship
Left the Allied crew to perish - Overboard

And in the freezing water
As the German crew were laughing
Counting all the gold they took for - The Fatherland

That would award them medals
Soon as they returned to Berlin
Set in for a course to Norway

Forward full
Steam ahead
Glory bound

Piloted by Capt. Dietrich
Many years a loyal Nazi
This was far his greatest conquest - for the

Lebensraum his deadly warship
Far surpassing any seawolf
This insured a great promotion

Never got
Home to port
Problems started

Compasses with spinning needles
Radio and radar silent
Phantom ship on the horizon – mirage

Of the convoy ship they plundered
Steaming up toward a broadside
Spectral crew prepared to ram her

Tore her hull
Flooded hold
Sinking drowning

Now the Lebensraum floats aimless
Cursed by her German ghost crew
Sailing in eternal circles

Never free
Never home
Never resting...

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from Peste de la Mer, released December 12, 2022
Dennis Montgomery - Guitars/Bass/Drums/Keyboards/Vocals

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WytchCrypt is the solo project progressive doom metal band of Dennis Montgomery - most well known for solo project prog rock band, "Mutiny in Jonestown". WytchCrypt seeks to combine the influences of doom metal, 70's progressive rock and the 12 tone theory of classical composer Arnold Schoenberg into something new to explore the genre of progressive doom metal. ... more

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