Salt and Bones - Dark Folk/Sea Shanty (Lyric Video)

Salt and Bones continues the myth I imagined and built through Witchwind Mary. The voices of the drowned now singing from below, steady and solemn, echoing through the sea’s endless hush.
Where Mary carried the wind and wrath above, this song belongs to those she claimed beneath.

Let me know what this one makes you see, or what it makes you remember.

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Lyrics:
She came with cries the mast could hear,
And stole our kin from bow to rear.
The sea was glass, then turned to stone,
And left us naught but salt and bone.

Salt and bones, oh, salt and bones,
Sing them home through wind and moans.
Lay them deep where no light roams,
Sleep, our brothers, salt and bones.

We cast our oaths into the waves,
To name the lost, to mark their graves.
The brine still whispers, "bones o' bones"
“They’re not beneath, they’ve found their home.”

Salt and bones, oh, salt and bones,
Hear the sea, it hums and drones.
Mary’s breath still chills the foam,
Calling us to salt and bones.

We hear them sing beneath the brine,
Their song is ours, in time, in time.
No priest, no bell, no grave, no stone,
Only tide, and salt, and bone.

Salt and bones, oh, salt and bones,
Cold our hearts, yet not alone.
Witchwind Mary, hear our tones,
Take us, keep us, salt and bones.

Take us, keep us…
Salt and bones…