Salt and Ink

[Intro]
[Verse]
Salt crusts the windowpane
Washing out the winter rain
The wick is burning low
Where the heavy currents flow
I watch the whitecaps break
For a memory’s sake
[Pre-Chorus]
Distant lights bob and sway
Fading with the end of day
I reach inside my coat
For the lines I never wrote
[Chorus]
Let the tide pull away
I have nothing left to say
Folding up the ghost
Leaving this lonely coast
Goodbye to the deep
Promises I couldn't keep
The lantern’s glow is wide
I’m turning with the tide
[Post-Chorus]
Just the salt and ink
Watching the spirits sink
Just the salt and ink
[Verse]
Crumpled paper in my fist
Vanishing inside the mist
Your ship has passed the line
Across the bitter brine
No more scanning the blue
No more waiting for you
[Bridge]
Accordion sighs in the hall
Shadows lean against the wall
The double bass hums low
Where the hidden spirits go
I’ll burn these words tonight
In the tower’s steady light
[Chorus]
Let the tide pull away
I have nothing left to say
Folding up the ghost
Leaving this lonely coast
Goodbye to the deep
Promises I couldn't keep
The lantern’s glow is wide
I’m turning with the tide
[Break]
[Verse]
The felt piano keys
Mimic the winter breeze
I see a spark on the rim
Looking so small and dim
It’s not your mast I see
It’s just a ghost of me
Turning the heavy lens
Where the long sorrow ends
[Chorus]
Let the tide pull away
I have nothing left to say
Folding up the ghost
Leaving this lonely coast
Goodbye to the deep
Promises I couldn't keep
The lantern’s glow is wide
I’m turning with the tide
[Post-Chorus]
Just the salt and ink
Watching the spirits sink
Just the salt and ink
[Outro]