I was bored this evening and decided to take a break from my normal weekday escape into video games to play around with my acoustic some. It’s been awhile since I’ve played it.
Well, after I got started, I came up with a little guitar ditty that reminded me of a sea chanty. So I decided to stick with it and write a little pirate-y thing. Is it cheesy? Well, maybe. But it was fun and I thought it sounded decent enough to throw it on the site so here it is.
It’s listed under the Knick-Knacks section on the Music page as “The Black Squall”.
Here are the lyrics for anyone interested:
The wind takes me off
filling hemp voids
deep deep into the wide wild blue
Labor the sun
unto the sea
sweet sweet lull of the boards beneath
swiftly we ride
into unknown
fill the spots on the tattered map
heart beating thin
in cages open
glide glide into the squall ahead
nowhere bound
all around
black clouds
watching me wanting me
spinning me round
quickly unbound
crashing wave after wave attack
briefly a prayer
hope for a chance
if only i could see home again
splinter the ship
crack of the whip
down down into the deepest dark
swirling down
no direction
if only I could take a breath
