[Intro – Distant Sea • Harp • Low Cello • No Vocals] [Verse 1 – Female Lead Only • Elara • Soft • No Male Vocals] He found me where the black tide turned beneath a silver sky. I should have vanished with the waves, but stayed with him that night. And every evening after that, I crossed the sea once more. He waited underneath the moon to meet me on the shore. [Chorus – Female Lead Only • Elara • Fragile • No Male Vocals] Meet me where the dark sea ends, before the moon is gone. Hold me through our borrowed night and leave me with the dawn. We were never given daylight, only hours beneath the stars. But a thousand nights beside you were enough to steal my heart. [Verse 2 – Female Lead Only • Elara • Years Passing • No Male Vocals] The years turned silver in his hair. His hands grew old in mine. I wore the face he'd always known, untouched by mortal time. One winter night he wasn't there. I found him weak in bed. [Male Voice Only • Vaeren • Old, Soft • Male Segment 1 of 2] Stay until the morning. [Female Lead Only • Elara • No Male Vocals] So I stayed. [Bridge – Female Lead Only • Elara • Bare Piano • Sea • No Male Vocals] The sunrise filled the little room. He watched the morning climb. [Male Voice Only • Vaeren • Fading • Male Segment 2 of 2 • Final Male Vocal] So that's what you look like in daylight. [Female Lead Only • Elara • Breaking • No Male Vocals From Here On] I held his hand. He closed his eyes. And time took him from mine. [Instrumental – Mournful Fiddle • No Vocals] [Verse 3 – Female Lead Only • Elara • Quiet • No Male Vocals] They laid him on the hill above the shore where we first met. I placed one flower on his stone and whispered, "Not goodbye yet." The years became a hundred years. His village changed below. But whenever longing calls my name, there's only one place I go. [Chorus – Female Lead Only • Elara • Deeper • No Male Vocals] Meet me where the dark sea ends. The moon has come and gone. I have walked through And I loved you I still do. I just miss you. So I came to sit with you awhile. [Distant Sea • Single Fiddle Note • No Vocals] [Female Lead Only • Elara • Barely Audible • No Male Vocals] Until the longing lets me go.
