Sea Fire Songtext
von Old Corpse Road

A radiance... Brimming
Gleaming as... Fire Burn
A mystical... Water Burn
A luminescence... Sea Lamp

They said they saw a vast o′fire
At sea on nights before a storm
A guiding glow 'neath the waves
A curious light reveals an eventide shoal

Let there be living light
To guide our craft by night
Bio-luminescent Nature
Our phosphorous saviour
Grant us brimming nets
Betrayed by their shimmer
Resplendent nature
Our prosperous saviour


Like in ancient tales, St Elmo′s fire
That haunted the masts of ships
The rigging seemed to set ablaze
Engulfed in pearlescent flare
Masts pointed with a blue flame
Our voyage cursed in religious awe
We can see a new horizon
Underneath the blazing sky

About, about, in reel and rout
The death fires danced at night
The water, like a witch's oils
Burnt green and blue and white

They dance in the darkness
The lights before the storm
Amid the gloaming corposants
A mesmerising form


They dance in the darkness
The lights before the storm
Sea fire
Amid the still abyss
An alluring form
Mar Fire
They dance in the darkness
The lights before the storm
Sea mare
Incandescent wonder
An ostentatious form
Sea Fire

They said they saw a vast o'fire
At sea on nights before a storm
A guiding glow ′neath the waves
A curious light reveals an eventide shoal

Let there be living light
To guide our craft by night
Bio-luminescent nature
Our phosphorous saviour
Grant us brimming nets
Betrayed by their shimmer
Resplendent nature
Our prosperous saviour

In ancient tales, the Devil′s Ship
Wrought havoc upon the waves
St Elmo tore his masts asunder
And sent the ship unto its grave
There on the devil searched the depths
For his sovereign wreckage
His spirit candles can be seen
As he searches on forlorn

They dance in the darkness
The lights before the storm
Amid the gloaming corposants
A mesmerising form

They dance in the darkness
The lights before the storm
Sea fire
Amid the still abyss
An alluring form
Mar Fire
They dance in the darkness
The lights before the storm
Sea mare
Incandescent wonder
An ostentatious form
Sea Fire
They dance in the darkness
The lights before the storm
Sea fire
Amid the still abyss
An alluring form
Mar Fire
They dance in the darkness
The lights before the storm
Sea mare
Incandescent wonder
An ostentatious form
Sea Fire