A Smuggler's Tale

Dusk fades as the moonlight greys

Every man at arms

Like a beckoning shroud

Cold eyes watch a crimson tide evolve

She rakes through the rocks then breaks

As the thunder clouds

Take a merciless bow

She climbs in the eye but then dissolves

This ship is riving on the reef

Soon her cargo will release

It pours like blood from every breach

Through the water to the beach

I race to the last embrace

For the few who rise

To the shallows are drowned

Most souls who remain the depths devour

Laid waste in a resting place

Where the tide departs

To the burial ground

No rest till the dead man’s chest is ours

Inside a cage I forged from tears

Is a man who should be feared

I prime the blade I call ‘Austere

Like a deadly cavalier

Stormbound, down we go

Keep those cliff top pyres aglow

Ghost-like figures in the shoreline mist

Stormbound, down we go

Shipwrecked silks and Calico

Bludgeon drowned by the Smuggler‘s kiss

Yeah

Mistaking the fires we make

For the ‘Harbour Mark’

Runs the money aground

We pray on the lost, we take it all

Gold braid for The Magistrate

Closes eyes and ears

To the deafening sound

We slay any soul that drifts ashore

These ragged marks show, wrist and shin

Where the manacle had been

This map of scars upon my skin

Is a chronicle of sins

Stormbound, down we go

Keep those cliff top pyres aglow

Ghost-like figures in the shoreline mist

Stormbound, down we go

Shipwrecked silks and Calico

Bludgeon drowned by the Smuggler‘s kiss

Yeah

Stormbound, down we go

Keep those cliff top pyres aglow

Ghost-like figures in the shoreline mist

Stormbound, down we go

Shipwrecked silks and Calico

Bludgeon drowned by the Smuggler‘s kiss

Stormbound, down we go

Keep those cliff top pyres aglow

Ghost-like figures in the shoreline mist

Stormbound, down we go

Shipwrecked silks and Calico

Bludgeon drowned by the Smuggler‘s kiss

Yeah