The Cedar and the Brine

[Intro]
[Verse]
Twenty years of salt and stone
Keeping watch out here alone
Windows crusted white with brine
Waiting for your light to shine
Foghorn moans across the bay
Counting down another day
[Pre-Chorus]
I write your name in soot
The ocean bites my foot
I fold my heart so thin
Waiting for the tide again
[Chorus]
Can you see the beacon fire? (Light it up!)
Pulling through the storm and mire (Bring him home!)
Twenty years of steady hands (Across the sands!)
Now I see your colors fly (Underneath the sky!)
The mast is tall and true (Coming back to you!)
The harbor bells they ring (Hear the choir sing!)
Break the bottle on the bow (You are with me now!)
Safe within the Maine-state line (Everything is fine!)
[Post-Chorus]
Oh, the light is burning bright
Guided through the black of night
Oh, the light is burning bright
Finally you’re in my sight
[Verse]
You send me cedar in the mail
Scents of wood and canvas sail
I read your words by kerosene
Finest hand I’ve ever seen
You build the hulls that cut the foam
I build the light to lead you home
[Pre-Chorus]
The ink is fading fast
The year is gone at last
I fold my heart so thin
Waiting for the tide again
[Chorus]
Can you see the beacon fire? (Light it up!)
Pulling through the storm and mire (Bring him home!)
Twenty years of steady hands (Across the sands!)
Now I see your colors fly (Underneath the sky!)
The mast is tall and true (Coming back to you!)
The harbor bells they ring (Hear the choir sing!)
Break the bottle on the bow (You are with me now!)
Safe within the Maine-state line (Everything is fine!)
[Bridge]
Three hundred days of heavy rain
A thousand ships without a stain
I saved them all for one true prize
The look of home inside your eyes
The gears they grind and glass it turns
The fire in the copper burns
[Verse]
The bioluminescent trail
Follows like a silver veil
The hull is dark and masts are tall
I’m standing here to catch the fall
The anchor drops and chain it rings
My weary heart finally sings
[Chorus]
Can you see the beacon fire? (Light it up!)
Pulling through the storm and mire (Bring him home!)
Twenty years of steady hands (Across the sands!)
Now I see your colors fly (Underneath the sky!)
The mast is tall and true (Coming back to you!)
The harbor bells they ring (Hear the choir sing!)
Break the bottle on the bow (You are with me now!)
Safe within the Maine-state line (Everything is fine!)
[Outro]