Free Verse on the Tide

Intro

Oh-oh

Eight arms in the harbor

Oh-oh

Verse 1

Ink cloud rising where the ships used to dock

Men with harpoons counting every knot

Squid ink prophets writing on the tide

Warnings of a war we can't divide

Pre-Chorus

We built our towers out of salt and bone

They built their cities underneath the foam

Chorus

Squids and men squids and men

Fighting over water that was never theirs back then

Squids and men squids and men

The ocean keeps the score nobody knows just when

Squids and men

Verse 2

My father sold his nets to buy a gun

Said the deep ones took the name of every son

I swim alone at night against the stream

And I still taste the salt inside a dream

Pre-Chorus

They count their victories in tangled rope

We count our losses in the shade of hope

Chorus

Squids and men squids and men

Fighting over water that was never theirs back then

Squids and men squids and men

The ocean keeps the score nobody knows just when

Squids and men

Bridge

Free verse

Free verse

Let the ink write what the cannon can't rehearse

Free verse

Free verse

Two species bleeding in the same universe

Bass Break

Verse 3

Grandmother hummed an old Armenian song

About a sea that took her family along

I hum it now when the tentacles convene

Both of us victims of the same machine

Pre-Chorus

They call it progress I call it fear

The oldest wars are always fought down here

Chorus

Squids and men squids and men

Fighting over water that was never theirs back then

Squids and men squids and men

The ocean keeps the score nobody knows just when

Outro

Squids and men

Squids and men

Ink and iron meeting in the deep again

Squids and men

Squids and men

Neither one will ever win

Neither one will ever win

Never never never win