Squids and Men

Intro

(Fight)

(Fight)

Tentacles rising

Tentacles falling

Verse 1

Steel boots on the harbor stones

Brass horns sound the call

Forty fathoms deep they wait

Eyes like polished coal

My father held a harpoon tight

My mother mended nets

But something vast and ancient moved

Beneath the fishing fleets

Pre-Chorus

What do you do

When the ocean learns your name

What do you do

When the tide refuses the shore

Chorus

Squids and men

Splitting the waves like a blade

Squids and men

No surrender on either side

Squids and men

Ink and iron collide

Post-Chorus

Squids

Squids

Squids and men

Verse 2

Eldritch arms against the mast

Cannon fire and swirling spray

Grandfather prayed in a language lost

The kraken sang it back that day

My brother drowned in the shallows

My sister rang the chapel bell

The sea gave back a hundred souls

And asked for ours as well

Pre-Chorus

How do you fight

What you can't even name

How do you fight

When the stars all rearrange

Chorus

Squids and men

Splitting the waves like a blade

Squids and men

No surrender on either side

Squids and men

Ink and iron collide

Post-Chorus

Squids

Squids

Squids and men

Bridge

Reels and rifles tangled up

In gelatinous grace

Weathered boots and suction cups

Same salt on every face

Maybe we're the same creature

Mirrored in the briny glass

Killing what we cannot understand

And dying just as fast

Guitar Solo

Chorus

Squids and men

Splitting the waves like a blade

Squids and men

No surrender on either side

Squids and men

Ink and iron collide

Post-Chorus

Squids

Squids

Squids and men

Outro

(And the harbor burns)

(And the squid retreats)

And the question stays unanswered

Beneath the waves

Beneath the waves

Beneath the waves