Iron Tide Ascending 5

Verse

Black water rising through the hull

Salt on my teeth where the anchor pulled

Chain broke loose beneath the keel

Tide won't wait for the bell

Iron rusts slow when it meets air

Bones remember what they bear

Cold grey horizon, no wind to hold

Flesh gone numb where the current's cold

I don't feel it anymore, just the drag

Water rising past my shoulders and lagging back

Every breath comes shorter, every beat slows down

Nothing under here that turns around

Pre-Chorus

Depth is a silence with a voice at its core

Something ancient walks through the door

The crown was never mine to keep

It's the water that this body sleeps in deep

Chorus

Iron tide ascending, I let it take the wheel

No shore left, no breath, just salt and steel

Flesh gives way before the king arrives

Rust becomes a kingdom that survives

Verse 2

Walls of coral covered long ago

Bones like fossils stacked three deep below

Fish swim through the iron like it's air

I don't have lungs to breathe with there

Ribcage creaking, lungs full of brine

Sweat gone cold against the skin of mine

No crown, no name in this dark, wide space

Just the pull and nothing but the pace

Pre-Chorus

Depth is a silence with a voice at its core

Something ancient walks through the door

The crown was never mine to keep

It's the water that this body sleeps in deep

Chorus

Iron tide ascending, I let it take the wheel

No shore left, no breath, just salt and steel

Flesh gives way before the king arrives

Rust becomes a kingdom that survives

Bridge

Not sinking, turning into stone

Current wears what it can't own

I remember hands on the rail, the sun

Now I'm the tide and I run

Outro

Nothing under here that turns around

Just rust and current without a sound