These winter tides
on graceless souls
where pain abides
in hope grown cold

hold helpless all
who ride them out
past the call
of fear and doubt

And slicing deep
the merciless moon
Relentless it keeps
cutting through

Chains imbedded
and under skin
If level headed
we see within

This that reason
through anguish set free
Behold the season
on a transforming sea

Hear the bashing
and brace to endure
The ship is crashing
on eternal shores