[Intro – steel drum arpeggios over sub-bass pulse]
(No words, just breathy “ah-ah” harmonies riding the breeze)
[Verse 1 – velvet pop vocal, calypso triplet feel]
Moonlight drips like liquid silver on the tide,
Your shadow sways where the trade winds collide.
Coral whispers secrets older than the reef,
Every ripple writes the ache I can’t release.
Barefoot on the edge where the sea meets the sky,
We trade heartbeats like fireflies.
[Pre-Chorus – layered gang vocals, hand-drum chatter]
No map, no compass, just the pull of the drum,
Salt on my skin where your fingers have run.
Horizon bends, but the feeling won’t break—
Every wave is a promise we didn’t have to make.
[Chorus – soaring pop hook, calypso brass stabs]
Salt-wind vows in the hush of the night,
Carried on conch-shell echoes of light.
No chains, no clocks, just the rhythm we share—
Love carved in foam, dissolving in air.
Salt-wind vows, let the ocean keep score,
Every crash is forever, every hush is before.
[Verse 2 – intimate half-time, 808 heartbeat]
Lanterns float like fallen stars on the bay,
Your silhouette cuts the dark in a soft ballet.
Mango sweet on the breeze, rum in the glass,
We drink the moment till the future can’t pass.
Palm fronds applaud when our laughter spills free,
Time forgets its name when you’re next to me.
[Pre-Chorus 2 – women’s choir “ooh” counter-melody]
No crown, no kingdom, just the tide and the flame,
Every breath is a prayer without a name.
Storm clouds gather, but the feeling won’t fade—
We’re the calm in the eye that the hurricane made.
[Chorus – richer stacks, steel drum counter-line]
Salt-wind vows in the hush of the night,
Carried on conch-shell echoes of light.
No chains, no clocks, just the rhythm we share—
Love carved in foam, dissolving in air.
Salt-wind vows, let the ocean keep score,
Every crash is forever, every hush is before.
[Bridge – calypso breakdown → cinematic pop swell]
(Spoken, almost whispered over hand drums)
If the sky forgets the stars,
If the moon drowns in the sea…
(Full choir enters)
Still the current knows our names,
Still the trade winds carry me.
(Brass fanfare, key shift to A♭)
One drop, one love, one endless refrain—
[Final Chorus – gospel-calypso fusion, children’s voices on “la-la”]
Salt-wind vows! Let the islands ignite,
Burning brighter than comets in flight.
No end, no start, just the circle we spin—
Love like the tide, pulling out, pulling in.
Salt-wind vows, till the last grain of sand,
We’ll be written in water, held safe in your hand.
[Outro – steel drums fade into ocean waves]
(Wordless hummed melody, distant conch call)
Ah-ah… ah-ah…
(Single gull cry, then silence)
