(Verse 1) The sky is bruised and bleeding rain The deck is slick beneath my stride Every wave that breaks across the bow Carries her name on the underside I taste the iron in the wind I feel the thunder in my veins If blood is thicker than this sea Then let it call them through the chains (Pre-chorus) Flags climb the halyard, soaked in gray Pigeons cut the gale like knives Every knot I tie is prayer Every feather bears her life (Chorus) Come through the storm, come through the dark Old debts and older scars I have no gold to weigh the cost Only the beating of my heart If you ever owed me breath If you ever shared my wars Hear the thunder answer back And bring your guns to settle scores (Verse 2) I write their names on scraps of sky Ink bleeding in the wet Thorne with his hook and crooked grin Lark who never lost a bet Reyes, who laughed when steel was singing The night we took the galleon’s hold I call them now the way the drowned Call currents running cold (Pre-chorus) Colors snap like breaking bones Wings beat against the dying light Every signal is a wound Every bird a piece of night (Chorus) Come through the storm, come through the dark Old debts and older scars I have no gold to weigh the cost Only the beating of my heart If you ever owed me breath If you ever shared my wars Hear the thunder answer back And bring your guns to settle scores (Bridge) Let the horizon split with sail Let the sea turn black with keel I will pay whatever price Steel demands and fire reveals Sister, wait—I’m carving time With every league we steal (Final Chorus – softer, then rising) Come through the storm, come through the dark I will not count the years I have no ransom but my name And the salt that stings like tears If blood is calling over water Let every rogue heart hear I am the tempest and the flame And I am almost there (Outro – whispered over fading wind) Almost there… Almost there…
