The ocean is a metaphor I keep returning to. Yeah, this is about a lost sailor and his encounter with sea ghosts, but it's also about depression. Misery loves company.
Lyrics
Praying to the wind to becalm the sea
For a thundering darkness is enveloping me
The air is electric with the ghosts of the drowned
Feel their cold, wet grip on my flesh as laughing they drag me down
Into the deep
Treasure my last breath, lungs are aflame
Voices below are chanting my name
Succumb to the urge to swallow the sea
Heart a stone I sink, the creatures are swarming and pulling me
Into the deep
(Chorus)
And still I'm longing for the sunlight
And for the faces of the loved ones left behind
Who I will never see again
Who I will never see again
Pinned by the dead to the floor of the sea
Though I cease to breathe, I continue to be
My flesh melts away, and I'll never be found
The shining rays of light of God unable to travel down
Into the deep
(Chorus)
Sound from above, and the dead release me
I float to the surface of a storm-ravaged sea
Another lost sailor who prays to be found
With the vengeance of the dead for the living I drag him down
Into the deep
