I sang to the waves as the moonlight did gleam A young pirate’s eyes held the pull of my dream His ship cut the sea with a reckless embrace But my heart sank deep in the lines of his face Oh the tide pulls hard but he sails away The salt on my lips tastes of sorrow’s decay A mermaid’s heart can’t anchor a man Love lost to the winds and the waves’ cruel hand He danced with the storm like it whispered his name A shadow of fire in an endless flame The ocean’s my cradle but lonely it grows When the one you adore only the tempest knows Oh the tide pulls hard but he sails away The salt on my lips tastes of sorrow’s decay A mermaid’s heart can’t anchor a man Love lost to the winds and the waves’ cruel hand I wove him a song of the deep’s silver thread A tune to entangle the life he had fled But no song could hold him no spell could stay The call of the sea was the price he would pay Oh the tide pulls hard but he sails away The salt on my lips tastes of sorrow’s decay A mermaid’s heart can’t anchor a man Love lost to the winds and the waves’ cruel hand
