[Verse 1]
We sailed out proud in iron and flame,
With banners high and guns all primed,
The engines sang our sovereign’s claim,
And dared the dark of sky and time.
But something waits where none can see,
No flag, no fire, no warning cry—
And one by one it’s taking ships,
Just vanishing from out the sky.
[Chorus]
Something hunts us in the blue,
Tracks the weak and splits the few,
No flare can light what stalks the night,
No steel has drawn its blood in fight.
We hold the line, we scan the gloom—
But silence is a deeper doom…
God help the souls that drift apart—
For it can hear a lonely heart.
[Verse 2]
The Valiant Crown fell out of line,
Her engines choked, her lift gone thin,
We marked her last by lantern sign—
Then nothing but the howling wind.
No blast, no spark, no battle cry,
No chance to turn, no time to flee,
Just empty sky where once she flew,
And prayers cast down to a frozen sea.
[Chorus]
Something hunts us in the blue,
Counts the broken, marks the few,
It waits beyond the edge of sight,
A shadow clothed in deeper night.
No captain’s call, no signal flare—
Just splintered hulls and empty air…
God help the souls that fall behind—
For it is patient… it will find.
[Verse 3]
One ship returned with horror told,
Of something vast and black as sin,
No wings they saw, no shape to hold—
Just wrongness moving in the wind.
A ripple where the stars should be,
A pressure felt before the scream,
Then timbers torn like paper thin,
And men erased like they’d not been.
[Bridge (slow, haunting)]
No glory here, no clash of might,
No foe to face, no line to fight…
It does not rage, it does not roar—
It simply takes… and waits for more.
[Final Chorus (rising, desperate)]
Something hunts us in the blue,
Closer now with every crew,
We dare not drift, we dare not fall—
Stay tight, stay sharp, stay close, stay all.
For those who lag, for those who stray—
Are lost before they know the way…
And from the dark, no mercy comes—
Just falling boards…
…and silent drums.
[Outro (quiet)]
So lash your line and hold her fast,
And pray your ship’s not sailing last…
For somewhere in the endless sky—
It waits…
…and watches…
ElCeviche
