Ashes

Song Ashes
Artist Oceanlab
Album Sirens of the Sea

Lyrics

[00:47.19] Across the eerie waters
[00:51.67] Misty covered glass I spied
[00:55.38] A sad procession snaking down
[00:59.45] The dry and deathly trail
[01:03.14]
[01:04.09] And as my telescopic eye
[01:07.28] Focused on the marching line
[01:11.54] It settled on the fallen crown
[01:15.56] Now covered with a veil
[01:18.88]
[01:19.84] The heavy weight of mourning
[01:23.47] Drew each head to face the ground
[01:27.26] Muscles tight on bearer arms
[01:31.59] Each body cold and frail
[01:34.92]
[01:35.76] And through the muslin mist
[01:39.06] The beating drums the only sound
[01:43.89] Twenty boat out in the bay
[01:47.56] All ready to set sail
[01:50.81]
[01:51.86] Ashes take me back to earth
[02:06.77] Water quench my human thirst
[02:23.68] Ashes take me back to earth
[02:39.30] Water quench my human thirst
[02:51.31]
[02:54.62] My bones soaked in the icy cold
[03:00.27] And fixed me where I lay
[03:03.65] Until each vessel left the shore
[03:08.33] And made a line for me
[03:10.62]
[03:11.63] There never was breeze
[03:14.89] The leaves were silent all that day
[03:18.59] They say the sails were ghosts
[03:22.54] That stole the wind to set them free
[03:26.67]
[03:27.65] I lay transfixed
[03:29.61] Felt nothing but the beating of my fear
[03:35.20] As flames rose up and swallowed whole
[03:39.99] The greatest of the fleet
[03:43.00]
[03:43.85] The others circled round
[03:47.40] And I heard chanting fill the air
[03:51.44] The ashes, lifted high
[03:54.57] Were falling back into the sea
[03:59.58]
[04:00.50] Ashes take me back to earth
[04:15.30] Water quench my human thirst
[04:30.70] Ashes take me back to earth
[04:47.10] Water quench my human thirst
[04:59.09]