The Shell Man's Song

[Chorus] Oh, the song on the stone, a whisper so deep, Where the sea-fog has woven its secrets to keep. Lost souls on the tide, a melody spun, From a world I once knew, but forever undone. My eyes, obsidian, reflect the grey spray, Guiding ghosts to a shore that has drifted away. [Verse] Cornwall's coast in the twilight's soft gleam, Where the mist wraps the world in a desolate dream. I washed on your sands, a shell of a man, With no memory left, no intricate plan. Just a fragment of charts, a forgotten decree, And a voice that now sings of the unfathomed sea. [Pre-Chorus] The elders murmur of siren's old call, A pathway for spirits beyond the sea wall. They say I recall what the ocean has claimed, A language of echoes, forever unnamed. [Chorus] Oh, the song on the stone, a whisper so deep, Where the sea-fog has woven its secrets to keep. Lost souls on the tide, a melody spun, From a world I once knew, but forever undone. My eyes, obsidian, reflect the grey spray, Guiding ghosts to a shore that has drifted away. [Verse] Through the haze, I see galleons that sleep, With their treasure of gold in the ocean's cold keep. The whales sing their sorrow, a mournful refrain, Of the ice and the dark, and the unending pain. These visions bloom in the song that I cry, Beneath the vast canvas of an indifferent sky. [Pre-Chorus] The elders murmur of siren's old call, A pathway for spirits beyond the sea wall. They say I recall what the ocean has claimed, A language of echoes, forever unnamed. [Chorus] Oh, the song on the stone, a whisper so deep, Where the sea-fog has woven its secrets to keep. Lost souls on the tide, a melody spun, From a world I once knew, but forever undone. My eyes, obsidian, reflect the grey spray, Guiding ghosts to a shore that has drifted away. [Bridge] I stand on the rocks where the wild breakers roar, And sing out the verses I knew long before. But the words are not mine, they belong to the deep, Where the anchors are rusted, and lost sailors sleep. This horizon I face, it holds me in thrall, A prisoner bound, by the ocean's dark call. [Outro]