III -

Our bodies sway under gallows

Drunkships and lanterns sinking

Our hearts used to beat for forever

With the pressing of our lips we save face

With dull quills we carve paths

Rivers of ink leading us away

Like lovers we embrace

The tide is begging us to stay

If this is how it ends

Let me drown in the endless sea

If this is how I die

Tell my son he never knew me

Following the rhymes of broken lines

Of love loss and things I’m thinking

I’ve been writing letters to myself

Dear god horizons shrinking

Encrypted manuscripts of love

We should have shared

One day you took to sea

And the letters you wrote

They never reached me

If this is how it ends

Let me drown in the endless sea

If this is how I die

Tell my son he never knew me

Cause when we danced, we danced alone

Our bodies strain, we took to song

The flagships falling, it won’t be long

When you take to sea, sing this song

Cause when we danced, we danced alone

Our bodies sway, under the sinking sun

The flagships falling, it won’t be long

When you take to sea, I hope you hear my song

Cause when we danced like lovers, we danced alone

Singing to the stars a sea of endless drones

We’re all alone, we are all alone

We’re alone, we are all alone

Cause when we danced, we danced alone

Our bodies strain, we took to song

The flagships falling, it won’t be long

When you take to sea, sing this song

Cause when we danced, we danced alone

(If this is how it ends, let me drown in the endless sea)

Our bodies strain, we took to song

(If this is how I die, tell my son he never knew me)

The flag ships falling, it won’t be long

(If this is how it ends, let me drown in the endless sea)

When you take to sea, sing this song

(If this is how I die, tell my son he never knew me)