(Call) Oh, what do you do when the wind goes thin? (Response) Reef your pride and pray within. (Call) Oh, what do you do when the Veilwind sighs? (Response) Lash the line and shut your eyes. Verse 1 There’s a seam in the world where the old god fell, And Moiren wept till the basin swelled, Salt in your teeth and salt in your soul, You don’t cross Godslost without paying a toll. (Call) Pay the toll! (Response) Pay it true! (Call) With what? (Response) With the crew! Verse 2 Mind the blackglass, mind the shoal, Mind the lights that aren’t a port, If you hear your own name on the midnight foam, Don’t answer back, or you won’t get home. (Call) Don’t answer back! (Response) Hold your tongue! (Call) Why not? (Response) ‘Cause the sea’s got lungs! Verse 3 Statues staring from the deep, Hands of stone that never sleep, One look wrong and you’ll lock your breath, Pray you’ve a cleric, or swim with death. (Call) Swim with death! (Response) Not today! (Call) Then what? (Response) Row away! Verse 4 Currents twist where the maps go pale, Storms roll up with a moonless gale, And every wave has a memory to steal, If you sail Godslost, you sail on a keel. (Call) On a keel! (Response) On a prayer! (Call) On what else? (Response) Cold hard fear! Final Verse So drink, you dogs, for the calm won’t last, And tie your knots like it’s your last mast, For the Sea Lost to Memory knows your name, And it laughs the same in storm or in flame. (Call) What’s it do? (Response) It takes and it takes! (Call) What’s it leave? (Response) Only wakes!
