Lyrics

Verse 1 (with some choir in the background)
The sea is a graveyard, so cold and so wide,
Where shadows of sailors forever abide.
Her lullaby’s cruel, her mercy is none,
She swallows the living as sure as the sun.

Chorus
Oh, hark how she moans ‘neath the hurricane sky,
The widows will wail and the lost ones will cry.
The tide takes her tithe, and the mast splinters high,
On haunting nights where the drowned still lie.

Verse 2
The lanterns are swaying, the deck creaks with pain,
The ropes whisper secrets no soul can explain.
The stars hide their faces, the compass spins wild,
And the sea calls us back like a mother, beguiled.

Chorus
Oh, hark how she moans ‘neath the hurricane sky,
The widows will wail and the lost ones will cry.
The tide takes her tithe, and the mast splinters high,
On haunting nights where the drowned still lie.

Bridge (sung soft, almost like a prayer)
The dead rise in foam with their hollow-eyed stare,
Their hands reaching out from the cold briny lair.
“Come home,” they are singing, “the storm is your shroud,
Your fate is the deep and the grave is your crowd.”

Final Chorus (slow, fading)
Oh, hark how she moans ‘neath the hurricane sky,
The widows will wail and the lost ones will cry.
The tide takes her tithe, and the mast splinters high,
On haunting nights where the drowned still lie.