Avril Medhonig 🕯️ Captain of the Drowned

🏴‍☠️ Black Flag Rising - Captain’s Cover Event ☠️ [Intro – whispered, haunting] They said the sea forgets… but it remembers me. [Verse 1] I walk on decks that breathe at night Salt in my veins, no need for light The tide knows every name I lost And every soul I paid the cost [Pre-Chorus] No stars above, just endless deep The ocean wakes when I don’t sleep [Chorus] They call me Avril Medhonig… the Tidebound The storm that never leaves the wave Not chasing gold or hollow crowns I sail the souls I could not save The drowned still whisper through my bones Their voices stitched into the sea This ocean is no place I roam… It is the thing that carries me [Verse 2] My ship don’t creak, it mourns in tone A hollow choir of skin and bone No living crew, yet still I steer A fleet of ghosts that draw me near [Bridge – spoken, intimate, dark] Do you hear them…? The ones beneath the waves… They don’t scream anymore. They remember. Every name I carry… was once alive. And now… they sail with me. [Final Chorus – bigger, darker] I am Avril Medhonig, the Tidebound Where light and mercy never stay The sea has carved me into legend Then washed my former name away No harbor waits to hold me close No dawn will break this endless blue I am not lost upon the ocean… The ocean’s lost in me… and you.