Black Reef Requiem - Axora Productions | Epic Pirate Rock

🎵 Black Reef Requiem – by Axora Productions
An epic pirate tale where sea shanty meets arena rock. Black Reef Requiem sails from oath to maelstrom to a cursed, tragic end.
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📌 About this track
Set sail into “Black Reef Requiem”, an original epic rock opera forged from sea-shanty pulse and a mythic pirate tragedy. Expect stomps, gang chants, fiddle/whistle hooks—and a curse that finally comes due. What’s your favorite moment? Tell us below and drop a like, or a skull emoji if you prefer.
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📝 Lyrics
Cinder compass, teeth of rust, points where decent men are dust,
Lanterns hiss and gulls take wing—hush, the black reef starts to sing.
Tar and salt on knotted rope, hearts lashed tight to iron hope,
Mark the chart with blood and bone, chase a fire no stars have shown.

Tie your fear to the capstan wheel,
Spit three times so the curse won’t feel—
But the tide keeps count, and the tide knows names.

Raise the lanterns high, way-hey ho!
Through fire and foam we row,
By blood and brine our fortunes grow,
To the black reef’s burning glow!

Bosun mutters olden prayers, “Keep the Devil from the stairs,”
Catspaw wind and glass like lead, omen birds with bellies red.
Silver whispers in the hold, fevered dreams of minted gold—
Strike the bell and stamp the deck, swear the oath upon your neck.

Hands to halyard, hearts to steel,
Coin for silence, flame for zeal—
But the deep keeps books, and the deep takes dues.

Raise the lanterns high, way-hey ho!
Through fire and foam we row,
By blood and brine our fortunes grow,
To the black reef’s burning glow!

Lightning ladders, rigging screams, stormfish flicker through our beams,
Quartermaster’s pupils black—maps that slither, eyes that track.
“Hold her windward, bite the spray!”—mutiny in masks of spray,
First mate palms the cinder star, steers us where the dead things are.

Name your price to the midnight queen,
Salt for silver, soul for sheen—
But the reef has teeth, and the reef wants flesh.

Raise the lanterns high, way-hey ho!
Through fire and foam we row,
By blood and brine our fortunes grow,
To the black reef’s burning glow!

Heave—ho—heave—ho—
Count the ribs the sea will sew.
Heave—ho—heave—ho—
Gold runs red when currents flow.

I have bargained with a tide that never sleeps.
Give me dawn on iron shores—keep your keeps.

Voices rise from kelp and bone, “Captain, pay what you have sown,”
Lanterns bloom with funeral light, painting halos on the night.
From the trench a queen ascends, crown of urchin, whale-song bends:
“Take your measure, oath-bound men—count your breaths to none again.”

Promise made in brine is steel,
Turn the wheel, turn the wheel.
Port of Dover—Port of Brest—
Name your mothers, name your rest.
Port of Galway—Islay’s foam—
Curse your compass, curse your home.
If I drown, let it be in fire—
If I burn, let it be desire.

Ashen lanterns, ember rain—
Gold is hunger given name.

He lays silver on the rail, kisses death like biting hail,
“Crew or coin?” the ocean sings—he grips greed with whitening rings.
Masts like crosses pierce the squall, every shroud a funeral shawl,
Hull unzips along the seam—gold spills out to feed the dream.

Hear the bell with no one near,
Hear the cheer that tastes of fear—
And the tide writes “Paid” in a widow’s hand.

Raise the lanterns high, way-hey ho!
Through fire and foam we row,
By blood and brine our fortunes grow,
To the black reef’s burning glow!

Way-hey, the lanterns fade,
Way-hey, the debt is paid,
Way-hey, the keel is stone,
We are reef and reef alone.

Way-hey, the pearls are eyes,
Way-hey, the tide denies,
Way-hey, our names unsewn,
We are wreck and whisper blown.

Raise the lanterns high, way-hey ho!
Through fire and foam we row,
By blood and brine our fortunes grow,
At the black reef’s burning glow.
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