[Intro – Solo Cello • Ocean Waves • Celtic Harp] [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Breathy • Fragile • Homesick] I remember the sea... Before I knew his hands, before I knew his name, before my skin was taken and I was taught to stay. [Verse 1 – Harp • Mournful Fiddle • Low Cello] [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Quiet • Fragile • Intimate] I came upon the shore at night, my silver skin beside me. The moon lay pale upon the waves. The sea was calling softly. Then hands came from the darkness and took my skin away. [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Trembling] I searched beneath the stones and sand, but someone hid my life from me. [Pre-Chorus – Cello Tremolo • Distant Wind] [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Pleading • Breath Catching] I asked him where it was. He only smiled. "Stay with me." But how can I stay when the ocean calls my name? [Chorus – Fiddle • Frame Drums • Female Choir] [Female Gregorian Choir – Distant] Selkie... Selkie... [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Sorrowful • Almost Crying] Selkie... child of the sea. Selkie... what have they made of me? My skin is hidden. My heart is chained. The tide still calls my name. I sleep beside a human world but dream of waves again. Selkie... I was never meant to stay. [Verse 2 – Acoustic Guitar • Harp • Fiddle] [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Warmer • Exhausted • Restrained Sorrow] The years went by. The children came. I learned to smile and stay. I held them close. I loved them all. Yet something slipped away. [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Homesick • Fragile] At night I heard the distant sea beneath the winter moon. Then underneath the floor one day... I found my skin again. [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Trembling • Realization] I held it to my face and remembered who I was. [Pre-Chorus – Rising Fiddle • Harp Tremolo] [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Beginning to Break] I could have stayed. I loved them still. But the sea was in my blood. And every wave was calling me... Come home. [Chorus – Wider Strings • Female Choir] [Female Gregorian Choir – Stronger] Selkie... Selkie... [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Broken • Desperate] Selkie... child of the sea. Selkie... do you remember me? I loved the life I tried to live. I loved the hands I held. But every breath upon the land pulled me farther from myself. Selkie... I was never meant to stay. [Bridge – Bare Harp • Distant Waves] [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Very Close • Trembling • Tearful] I looked at my children. I kissed them while they slept. Forgive me... I am not leaving because I do not love you. [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Voice Breaking] I am leaving... because I can no longer breathe. [Female Gregorian Choir – Very Distant • Ancient] Come home... Come home... The sea remembers you. [Verse 3 – Harp • Mournful Fiddle] [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Exhausted • Tearful] I carried my skin beneath the moon and walked toward the shore. Each step became a farewell to the life I could not keep. I heard their voices behind me. I almost turned around. [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Rising Emotion] Then the ocean opened wide... and I remembered who I was. [Final Chorus – Full Scottish Folk Ensemble • Female Gregorian Choir] [Female Gregorian Choir – Powerful] SELKIE! SELKIE! [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Powerful but Breaking • Almost Crying] Selkie... child of the sea. Selkie... the ocean calls to me. I gave them years. I gave them love. I gave them all I could. But you cannot cage the ocean inside a human heart. Selkie... I hear the waves again. Selkie... forgive me if you can. [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Cracking • Deeply Emotional] I was your mother. I was your wife. But I was born... for the sea. [Final Choir – Ancient Female Harmonies] Selkie... come home... Selkie... come home... [Outro – Solo Harp • Distant Waves] [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Barely Audible • Trembling] The shore grows smaller. Your voices fade away. The sea has taken me home... but my heart remains with you. [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Broken Whisper] My children... forgive me. [Female Gregorian Choir – Very Distant] Selkie... [Deep Female Contralto • Strong Native Scottish Highland Accent • Fading] I came home... and left my heart behind.
