[Intro]
Mugs on the table
Boot on the chair
Salt in our throats
Smoke in the air (hey!)
[Verse 1]
We sail for coin and chaos
We drink to drowned regret
Ink maps stain the oak boards
Cards stuck in spilled ale wet
Storm glass cracks at midnight
Old songs cut through the roar
Your hand snaps to your cutlass
When drums shake the floor
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear that rumble in the rafters
Hear that thunder in your chest
Is it waves or is it war drums
Or a curse we never blessed?
[Chorus]
In the Tavern of the Tempest Tide (woah)
We raise our cups as the floor divides
When the beat hits hard like a cannonball
Every rogue
Every saint
Starts to rise and fall
In the Tavern of the Tempest Tide
Where the roof might crack and the seas collide
Sing loud
Drink deep
Let the night decide
In the Tavern of the Tempest Tide
[Verse 2]
A bard with a battered lute grins
Strings frayed like a torn white flag
Plucks one crooked little pattern
Makes the whole back room brag
Then steel strings roar like lightning
Boots slam in crooked time
Voices crash in crooked chorus
Wrong notes still feel sublime
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear the floorboards fight the rhythm
Hear your heartbeat change its pace
Is it fear or is it freedom
When you stare fate in the face?
[Chorus]
In the Tavern of the Tempest Tide (hey!)
We raise our cups as the floor divides
When the beat hits hard like a cannonball
Every rogue
Every saint
Starts to rise and fall
In the Tavern of the Tempest Tide
Where the roof might crack and the seas collide
Sing loud
Drink deep
Let the night decide
In the Tavern of the Tempest Tide
[Bridge]
[Breakdown – tavern hush
Just lute and low drum]
One by one the voices fall
Candles bend
The shadows crawl
Captain grins with a golden tooth
“Scream your curse
Or swear the truth”
[Build]
Stomp
Stomp
Hand on heart
Then blade
Stomp
Stomp
Feel the shift we made (woah)
From cellar to the crow’s nest
From gutter to the sky
We’re broken
We’re blessed
We’re too drunk to die
[Chorus]
In the Tavern of the Tempest Tide
We raise our cups as the floor divides
When the beat hits hard like a cannonball
Every rogue
Every saint
Starts to rise and fall
In the Tavern of the Tempest Tide (oh!)
Where the roof might crack and the seas collide
Sing loud
Drink deep
Let the night decide
In the Tavern of the Tempest Tide
[Outro – extended]
[Soaring guitar solo over last chant]
Tempest Tide
Tempest Tide (hey!)
Sing loud
Drink deep
At the Tempest Tide