Dead Reckoning ☠️⚰️🪦⚓️

DEAD RECKONING [Radio Static] [Distant Thunder] [Creaking Hull] [High-Pitched Laughter Far Off In The Fog] ⸻ [VERSE 1] Nobody knew when the compass gave way The moment slipped out and was carried away The needle lay still like a thing finally done While the bow kept chasing a vanishing sun No chart could defend it No sailor explain Some force beyond reason had settled its claim The sea moved around it as calm as could be Like none of it mattered except it and the sea ⸻ [PRE-CHORUS] Nothing appeared Nothing spoke Nothing broke through the haze Yet something kept changing In ways we couldn’t phrase ⸻ [CHORUS] Dead reckoning It’s the closest words we’ve got For the certainty that found us Beyond the edge of thought Dead reckoning Though the phrase falls apart The more we tried to name it The less we knew where to start [Whispered Ad-Libs] [Already decided] [Already known] [Already gone] ⸻ [VERSE 2] The water moved strangely Not gentle or wild Like something ancient searching For something lost for awhile Each mile brought a feeling We couldn’t outrun That whatever had been missing Believed we were the one Questions stopped helping Answers rang thin Every road toward understanding Led deeper in Memory slipped through us Like rain through an open hand Leaving only fragments We could barely understand ⸻ [PRE-CHORUS] Every answer broke apart Every theory drifted low Something stayed beneath the surface Watching every need to know ⸻ [CHORUS] Dead reckoning No language holds the shape Of whatever waits beyond the places Reason can’t escape Dead reckoning No map could draw the line Between the sea beneath the hull And the thing behind the mind [High-Pitched Laughter] [Static Burst] ⸻ [BRIDGE] The sea wasn’t calling Calling leaves a choice The sea wasn’t hunting Hunting leaves a voice The sea wasn’t waiting Waiting leaves time Whatever carried us forward Belonged to no design Somewhere beneath the black water Beyond reason or fear Something moved with certainty Like it had done for years [Whispers] [Not the first] [Not the last] [Not the only] ⸻ [FINAL CHORUS] Dead reckoning A name that barely fits A lantern held against a dark Too vast to measure it Dead reckoning No harbor left to find Only the growing certainty That nothing fell behind Nothing had gone wrong Nothing had missed the mark The sea already knew the way Before we ever left the dark ⸻ [OUTRO] There should be words to carry home There should be truths to understand Instead the sea kept all its secrets Like black water cupped inside its hands The ocean never offered answers The ocean never tried And somehow that was far more frightening Than if it ever had replied [Radio Static] [High-Pitched Laughter Fading] [Voodoo Radio]