The guests are stood in silence   They stare and drink their wine   On the wall the canvas hangs   Frozen there in time      They marvel at the beauty   The horror and despair   At the wake of the Medusa   No one shed a tear      Sit my friends and listen   Put your glasses down   Sit my friends and listen   To the voices of the drowned      In the moonlight's ghostly glow   I waken in a dream   Once more upon that raft I stand   Upon a raging sea      In my ears the moans and screams   Of the dying ring   Somewhere in the darkness   The siren softly sings      Out there in the waves she stands   And smiling there she calls   As the lightning cracks the sky   The wind begins to howl      The architects of our doom   Around their tables sit   And in their thrones of power   Condemn those they've cast adrift      Echoes down the city street   Their harpies laughter rings   Waiting for the curtain call   Oblivious in the wings      The casket is empty   Abandon ye all hope   They ran off with the money   And left us with the rope