Keel splits the breakers, the wind hauls us forward. The weight of leaving drags against my chest. Circe’s whispers coil inside my skull, While the ocean pulls apart the sky. No sun, no stars, just voices in the black, A sea that moves the wrong way home. *(Oh-oh-oh) The tide won’t take me home,* *(Oh-oh-oh) I hear them call my name,* *(Oh-oh-oh) The waves, they split apart,* *And still, I go…* Elpenor, you slipped through the cracks of the world. Fell between the night and the drink, Left your body behind like an afterthought. Now you beg me to carve your name into the earth, As if that could hold you still. I open the ground, let the blood sink deep. The dead press closer, hollow and reaching. Their hands pull, their voices fray— Not alive, not lost, just waiting. Tiresias speaks, mouth full of dust, And every word twists the wind against me. *(Oh-oh-oh) The tide won’t take me home,* *(Oh-oh-oh) I hear them call my name,* *(Oh-oh-oh) The waves, they split apart,* *And still, I go…* Elpenor, you slipped through the cracks of the world. Fell between the night and the drink, Left your body behind like an afterthought. Now you beg me to carve your name into the earth, As if that could hold you still. The gods have already made their decision. Neptune has his hand on my throat. I will walk forward, losing pieces of myself, One by one, into the black water. A name unspoken, a path unwinding— The shore is a dream I will not reach. *(Background Vocals: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)* You ask me to remember, but the wind is too loud. You ask me to stay, but the tide already knows. The dead pull, the water sings, And still, I go… Elpenor, you slipped through the cracks of the world. Fell between the night and the drink, Left your body behind like an afterthought. Now you beg me to carve your name into the earth, As if that could hold you still. *(Oh-oh-oh) The tide won’t take me home,* *(Oh-oh-oh) The ghosts still call my name,* *(Oh-oh-oh) The waves, they split apart…* Ah! *(Oh-oh-oh) The tide won’t take me home,* *(Oh-oh-oh) The ghosts still call my name,* *(Oh-oh-oh) The waves, they split apart…* And still, I go… and still, I go…