On Stirring Seas of Salted Blood

by The Black Dahlia Murder

From the album: Ritual

Track 3 of 12 on Ritual (2011).

Duration: 4:42

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Lyrics for On Stirring Seas of Salted Blood

Oceans of madness darkened, alone on hell she rides Lichen undead and rotten, dripping and dignified She combs with violence upon the wailing storm This spectral ship of doomed purgation barrels on awry On stirring seas of salted blood Condemned to forge her sails forevermore Enslaved her hull will never reach the shores Damning waters of irony filth 'Neath the stench of crimson winds her sails of flesh betorn Red skeletons are oaring the plasma stains their bones Her rusting cannons fire blindly in the mist This haunted vessel lost and damned the prisoners of her endless quest A burial at ancient sea, that cannot rest, in fucking peace The crew of wraithlike revenants, merely seek peace and reverence From purgatorial permanence, their cursed bondage has no end On they ride through the throes of ceaseless night her will never dies The compass pointing straight to hell and that is where they're going Beaten by curling waves of red the storm no signs of slowing now On Stirring Seas of Salted Blood condemned to forge her sails forevermore Enslaved her hull will never reach shores Damning these waters of irony filth Scabbed with the blood of the ones they have killed The ghosts of war must soldier on

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More from Ritual

  1. A Shrine to Madness
  2. Moonlight Equilibrium
  3. On Stirring Seas of Salted Blood
  4. Conspiring With the Damned
  5. The Window
  6. Carbonized in Cruciform
  7. Den of the Picquerist
  8. Malenchantments of the Necrosphere
  9. A Grave Robber's Work
  10. The Raven
  11. Great Burning Nullifier
  12. Blood in the Ink