start] [Intro: drifting feedback, no rhythm, faint harmonic ringing] blue flicker on the mast like it’s breathing (or just me) [Loose Verse] Hairs on my neck hands gone numb on the rail something alive in the stormlight something trying to stay you said don’t look at it but it keeps finding us threading the rigging soft electric bloom [Drift / Lift] saint elmo saint elmo (stay) [Chorus-like swell: guitars widen, vocals blur into layers] saint elmo’s fire don’t go out yet not yet erasmus of formia hold the line hold the line corposant in the dark in the dark (keep it on us) [Fragmented Verse] it touches the edges of everything we are turns the air into color before it tears apart i can feel it leaning into the hull like a warning like a hand or something kinder [Return swell, less defined] witchfire witchfire don’t let it leave [Chorus variation: thicker, more unstable] saint elmo’s fire if you’re a sign don’t say of what saint erasmus keep us moving don’t let us stop hermes fire on our mouths on our mouths (say nothing) [Break / near silence] [drums drop, only low hum + distant feedback] we keep sailing like it isn’t there like it isn’t everything [Final swell: noisy, dissolving] saint elmo’s fire stay with us till it breaks corposant light the way into it into it into it [Outro: collapse into noise] blue on the mast blue in the wires blue— [high ringing feedback, tape warble fade] [end]
