Logs and Lies

[Verse 1] We found the log in the captain’s desk Salt-stained pages, lantern-wet Every date had a jagged turn Every name got a rope burn Ink ran black on the final night Three gold coins and a blade in sight He wrote “safe harbor” with a shaking hand Then buried the map in the sand [Pre-Chorus] Turn the page Hear the groan The truth bites hard When the sea’s grown cold [Chorus] Logs and lies Logs and lies Truth in the teeth Of the old tide Logs and lies Logs and lies We all sink deep In the captain’s lies [Verse 2] Maggie swore she saw the mast break first But the book says hunger came to curse Finn had a wound that would never close Yet the log named storms as the only ghosts One line read “no man left behind” Next line: “lock the hatch and buy me time” So we laughed at every painted saint Till the last word read: “I wasn’t brave” [Pre-Chorus] Turn the page Feel the shame The ink don’t wash And the sea knows names [Chorus] Logs and lies Logs and lies Truth in the teeth Of the old tide Logs and lies Logs and lies We all sink deep In the captain’s lies [Bridge] [Half-time break] If I write my name Will it hold tonight? If I swear I stayed Will the wreck decide? We heard that pen Scrape bone like steel The book was a blade And it made us kneel [Final Chorus] Logs and lies Logs and lies Truth in the teeth Of the old tide Logs and lies Logs and lies Burn the page And take the night Logs and lies Logs and lies We all sink deep In the captain’s lies --- Jolly Roger's Shadow Library is too sick of a band name for this not to exist.