Fight 6 — Coils Over the Calm

Lyrics

[Barker - Verse 1]
The heart of the whole album, the gentle-until man,
met a thing that doesn't rage and doesn't roar and doesn't plan —
it just holds. In the wetland the coils found the king of calm,
and all that careful power couldn't pry the river's arm.

[Sisu - Refrain]
coils over the calm…
even the gentle giant breathes…

[Barker - Verse 2]
He took the green, he took the trees, he fought the way he should —
but you cannot out-muscle a thing that turns your strength to good
for nothing; every breath he spent the snake just kept, and kept,
and the soul of the album went to sleep where the slow river crept.

[Barker + Sisu - Chorus]
Coils over the calm — the moral heart goes down —
two-to-one in the wetland where the patient wear the crown.
He was strong enough to lift the world and gentle as the dawn,
but gentle has to breathe, my friends — and the snake was holding on.

[Bridge - Sisu]
(soft) sing for the gentle one… he only ever fought to keep…

[Outro - Barker]
The Anaconda to the Final. Heartbreak in the Far Garden.