Married to the Deep (Cinematic/Art Rock)

The salt remembers your name You walk the splintered ribs of ships You sank without a cry And folded into sleep Rope-burn laughter, coral hair Your vows dissolved in foam Every promise scattered wide No compass left for home You never found the shoreline You haunt the iron wrecks Still dragging half-spoken prayers With chains around your neck I waited out the storms for you Bit my tongue to red Heard you calling from below With treasures in your chest Call my name Let it rot in brine I drank your sorrow You drank mine (My soul caught in the undertow) (Blue hands, dead lips, moving slow) I love you so like tides love bones Let the mast come down Let the lamps be gone (We are bound to the anchor) (You already know) Hold me down Till the red sky cracks This is the curse You leave… I pull you back Sometimes you fade beside me Just beyond my reach Your mouth against the glass of time I count the years in sleet I curse the water for its theft I curse the watching sky I curse the gods who let you fall And taught you how to die (Hold me down) (Till the red sky cracks) This is the curse If you flee… I pull you back