The New Hydra Collection

The New Hydra Collection
Album	Dark in Here
Released	June 25, 2021
Length	2:28
Previous Track	"To the Headless Horseman"
Next Track	"The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums"

The New Hydra Collection is the eighth song on the album Dark in Here.

Lyrics

Down in the lab
With the hopeful few
Hell bent on doing
The work that you cowards won't do
Weaving the future
From bright new threads
Prices on their heads

Someday the abomination
Is going to finally make land
We stay silent as a snowdrift
Focused on the task at hand
Dream of the day
When the calm waters break
And something rises from the lake

Someday, all of you people will know
The safe way isn't the only way to go

Movement in the grid
As fish leap in the air
It's only a test run
And still the tension's too delicious to bear
All around the monitor station
Big smiles, high fives
According to my projections
Everybody's going to run for their lives

Still we wait until our time has come
Down here where the engines hum
Exiled priests of Rome
Bringing our troubles back home

Someday, all of you people will know
The safe way isn't the only way to go

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song

• "This song was recorded on or about March twelfth, 2020. The song was written before then, but I feel its cheerful content sort of reflects what was in the process of becoming on or about March twelfth, 2020, when we were expecting to fly home from Alabama and by the end of that week we said, you know, it's maybe not a great time to be in an airport in Alabama." -- 2021-12-17 - Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

• 2021-08-07 - Variety Playhouse - Atlanta, GA
• 2021-08-10 - The Mohawk - Austin, TX
• 2021-08-18 - The Black Sheep - Colorado Springs, CO
• 2021-09-25 - Levon Helm Studios - Woodstock, NY
• 2021-12-17 - Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC
• 2022-05-11 - Aladdin Theater - Portland, OR
• 2022-09-09 - Bogart's - Cincinnati, OH
• 2022-09-10 - Bluebird Nightclub - Bloomington, IN
• 2022-09-11 - The Hall - Little Rock, AR

Dark in Here

Track list: "Parisian Enclave" • "The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower" • "Mobile" • "Dark in Here" • "Lizard Suit" • "When a Powerful Animal Comes" • "To the Headless Horseman" • "The New Hydra Collection" • "The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums" • "Before I Got There" • "Arguing With the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island Baby Review" • "Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light"