Cormorant - The Emigrant's Wake lyrics

Mists once dressed these dunes Like silk upon her skin But the ocean's bare today And the tide is coming in I watch a castle on the beach A tower crumbling away Mother Nature always wins The games we children play Rocks peek out from the foam There seven seagulls stand I slip the sandals off my feet And drop them on the sand As I walk dust clings and falls To my dry and weary soles The prints I leave upon the ground Like word's upon a scroll Walk into the waves As the footprints fade away Oceans leave no graves All our legacies decay The water's cold at dusk I thought as I stepped into the tide The sea does not want me here What could she have to hide? Our forebears looked to the horizon But I called into the distance And no deities would respond Walk into the waves As the footprints fade away Oceans leave no graves All our legacies decay Perhaps if I tread further Past where my feet engraved My last mark upon the world I'd find a face within the waves