For A Sailor’s Grave
dark cinematic sea shanty, maritime ballad, orchestral horror, male baritone vocals, haunting, epic atmosphere, thunder drums, low strings, eerie fiddle, ghostly ambience, pirate folk
For A Sailor’s Grave
dark cinematic sea shanty, maritime ballad, orchestral horror, male baritone vocals, haunting, epic atmosphere, thunder drums, low strings, eerie fiddle, ghostly ambience, pirate folk
Lyrics
Verse – The Call of the Sea
I met him once in Marlowe’s Bay,
A boy who burned to sail away.
With empty pockets, eyes aflame,
He swore the sea would learn his name.
The Widow’s Wail became his home,
A coffin bound for seas unknown.
Her captain swore, “The stars will guide
To where the moon and sun collide.”
They raised their cups, they roared their cheer,
And slipped the coast ere night drew near.
Pre-Chorus
Yet whispers rode the briny breeze
Of deadly tombs in haunted seas.
Chorus
Sail on, sail on, Elias Grey,
Beyond the stars, past light of day.
Through storms that bite and waves that roar,
To cursed gold on a blood-red shore.
Your fate was written in the foam,
The deep has marked you for its own.
No priest to pray, no bell to save,
Just brine and dark ...
for a sailor’s grave ...
for a sailor’s grave.
Instrumental Break
Verse – The Signs of Doom
The ocean howled, “Turn back, be gone,”
But pride and greed still drove them on,
Until through storm they sighted land,
Where temple shadows scarred the strand.
Wild lightning crowned the ruin's head,
Its roots in gloom, its courts long dead.
They dropped the hook, moored the Wail,
Then down they went ...
beneath the veil.
Bridge - dark
In ghostly light, the walls did bleed
With runes no living tongue could read.
At last ... a hall the tides had claimed,
A wooden chest in shadow framed.
Pre-Chorus
Though Elias sensed the danger near,
he held his course through rising fear.
Chorus - Powerful
Sail on, sail on, Elias Grey,
Beyond the stars, past light of day.
Through storms that bite and waves that roar,
To cursed gold on a blood-red shore.
Your fate was written in the foam,
The deep has called your spirit home.
No priest to pray, no bell to save,
Just brine and dark ...
for a sailor’s grave ...
for a sailor’s grave.
Interlude
Verse – threatening
He broke the lock, he split the lid,
then cursed the hour for what it hid:
No coins of gold, no relic bright,
But waters cruel that drank the light.
Build-Up
The stone gave way ... the halls screamed back,
And out it poured, the ocean black.
It struck like claws, it crushed the gate.
It gripped the throat and sealed their fate.
The Widow’s Wail was torn in two,
swallowed up were wreck and crew
Pre-Chorus
And the last thing seen in creeping night
was Elias’ face ...
gone ghostly white.
Grand Finale - Powerful
Sail on, sail on, Elias Grey,
Beyond the stars, past light of day.
Through storms that bite and waves that roar,
To cursed gold on a blood-red shore.
Your doom was written in the foam,
The deep shall guide your spirit home.
No priest to pray, no bell to save,
Just brine and dark ...
Oohooohoohoo
for a sailor’s grave.
Outro
Some say the stars turn cold and pale,
above the wake of Widow’s Wail.
And in the swell, if you should stray,
You’ll hear the song ... of Elias Grey.
End