BLACK INK REVENGE Verse 1 August wore her best black dress, Moonlight tangled in her hair, We were barefoot on the cliffside, Salt and secrets everywhere. The ocean looked like spilled mascara, Running down the edge of night, And the waves kept writing letters That the tide refused to sign. You said forever like a sailor, Like a promise made at sea, But forever’s just a lighthouse When you’re standing next to me. Pre-Chorus I learned young— The prettiest storms Are the ones that don’t announce themselves. Chorus Black ink revenge, I wrote your name where the ocean bends. Black ink revenge, The tide comes back, but it never forgives. Black pearls around my throat, Sea salt under my skin, The water keeps your ghost— Then brings it back again. Black ink revenge, The sea remembers everything. Black ink revenge, Black ink revenge… Verse 2 The fishermen all crossed themselves When they saw me by the shore, Said there’s a girl who talks to thunder Like she’s heard it all before. Maybe I’m a sea-witch, baby, Maybe I’m just hard to kill, Maybe every broken heart Eventually learns the language of the waves. I keep your photograph in driftwood, Your silhouette in stormcloud grey, You became another shipwreck The horizon couldn’t save. Pre-Chorus And all those boys Who swore they’d stay Are just names dissolved in rain. Chorus Black ink revenge, I wrote your name where the ocean bends. Black ink revenge, The tide comes back, but it never forgives. Black pearls around my throat, Sea salt under my skin, The water keeps your ghost— Then brings it back again. Black ink revenge, The sea remembers everything. Black ink revenge, Black ink revenge… Bridge Every love leaves a fossil, Buried somewhere in the dark, Every wave is just a heartbeat Trying to find where it starts. I don’t hate you. That’s the cruel part. The ocean taught me: Some things drown, Some things become art. Final Chorus Black ink revenge, I wrote your name where the ocean bends. Black ink revenge, The tide comes back, but it never forgives. Black pearls around my throat, August burning cold and blue, The ocean never chose a side— It just outlived me and you. Black ink revenge, The sea remembers everything. Black ink revenge, Black ink revenge… Black ink revenge… Black ink revenge…
