A Smuggler’s Tale Songtext
von Ten

Dusk fades as the moonlight greys
Every man at arms like a beckoning shroud
Cold eyes watch a crimson tide evolve
She rakes through the rocks then breaks
As the thunder clouds take a merciless bow
She climbs in the eye but then dissolves

This ship is riven on the reef
Soon her cargo will release
It pours like blood from every breach
Through the water to the beach

I race to the last embrace
For the few who rise to the shallows are drowned
Most souls who remain, the depths devour
Laid waste in a resting place
Where the tide departs to the burial ground
No rest till the dead man′s chest is ours


Inside a cage I forged from tears
Is a man who should be feared
I prime the blade I call "Austere"
Like a deadly cavalier

Stormbound, down we go
Keep those cliff top pyres aglow
Ghost-like figures in the shoreline mist
Stormbound, down we go
Shipwrecked silks and Calico
Bludgeon drowned by the smuggler's kiss
Yeah

Mistaking the fires we make
For the "Harbour Mark" runs the money aground
We pray on the lost, we take it all
Gold braid for the Magistrate
Closes eyes and ears to the deafening sound
We slay any soul that drifts ashore

These ragged marks show, wrist and shin
Where the manacle had been
This map of scars upon my skin
Is a chronicle of sins


Stormbound, down we go
Keep those cliff top pyres aglow
Ghost-like figures in the shoreline mist
Stormbound, down we go
Shipwrecked silks and Calico
Bludgeon drowned by the smuggler′s kiss
Yeah yeah yeah

Stormbound, down we go
Keep those cliff top pyres aglow
Ghost-like figures in the shoreline mist
Stormbound, down we go
Shipwrecked silks and Calico
Bludgeon drowned by the smuggler's kiss
Yeah yeah yeah
Stormbound, down we go
Keep those cliff top pyres aglow
Ghost-like figures in the shoreline mist
Stormbound, down we go
Shipwrecked silks and Calico
Bludgeon drowned by the smuggler's kiss
Yeah yeah yeah - yeah