Dawn breaks red across the quay
Smoke still drifts from broken sea
Lanterns gutter, streets lie bare
Salt and warning in the air
Chains lie snapped on cellar floor
Water stains the harbour door
What was hidden now has stirred
Not a scream... but something heard
Hear the rigging start to cry
Watch the gulls refuse the sky
Every oath you thought was sealed
Now demands to be revealed
The tide turns - hear it rise
Black against the morning skies
The tide turns - feel it burn
What was buried will return
When the sea redraws the line
No man outruns the brine
When the harbour starts to churn
You will know - the tide has turned
Word spreads fast from dock to square
No one says what's truly there
Compass needles spin off-true
Every chart undone anew
Call it fear or call it fate
Call it something at the gate
But every soul in Windshore knows
The sea decides how this now goes
Hear the rigging start to cry
Watch the gulls refuse the sky
Every oath you thought was sealed
Now demands to be revealed
The tide turns - hear it rise
Black against the morning skies
The tide turns - feel it burn
What was buried will return
When the sea redraws the line
No man outruns the brine
When the harbour starts to churn
You will know - the tide has turned
You can pray to silent stone
You can swear you stand alone
But when the black tide starts to climb
It comes to settle borrowed time
The tide turns - iron and foam
Calls the restless sailors home
The tide turns - hear the cry
Nothing drowned will ever die
The tide turns - hear it rise
Black against the morning skies
The tide turns - feel it burn