Eira Stormhild - Full Moon Over The Wide, Wide Sea (Sea Shanty for a lost love)

Lyrics, concept and prompt - ©PaperBird07, all rights reserved
Voice and instrumental - Suno AI

Chorus

Oh ho, my love, hear the tide call soon,
I’ll sing you a spell by the silver moon.
Though a whole great land lies far between,
We’ll speak in the light when the moon shines clean.
So roll, boys, roll, let the white waves run
I’m yours till the ocean and stars are done.

Verse 1

’Twas wartime wind and a cannon’s roar,
When I first laid eyes on the harbour shore.
Through smoke and storm, you turned your face,
And time stood still in that hard, bright place.
No priest, no ring, no promise wrote,
But love struck fast like a tall ship floats.


Verse 2

Now I’m bound to the sea, and you to the plain,
A continent’s weight like an iron chain.
Yet the gulls still cry, and the surf still beats,
And I carry your name where the salt wind meets.
If I close my eyes, I can feel you near,
Like fiddle-notes soft on an Irish ear.


Verse 3

On the full moon’s rise, when the deck turns bright,
I lift my hands to the lantern-light.
And the moon makes a road on the ocean wide,
A shimmering path for your words to ride.
You whisper in beams, I answer in foam,
And the stars write “soon” on the dark way home.


Verse 4

So keep your heart, love-steady and true,
Like a lighthouse flame cutting storms in two.
For wars may fade and empires fall,
But the moon still climbs, and it hears us all.
And when peace comes round like the longed-for sun,
I’ll cross that wide world - our two lives one.

Final Chorus

Oh ho, my love, hear the tide call soon,
I’ll sing you a spell by the silver moon.
Though a whole great land lies far between,
We’ll speak in the light when the moon shines clean.
So roll, boys, roll, let the white waves run
I’m yours till the ocean and stars are done.