Until the Sail Is Gone | Haunting Sea-Elf Tavern Ballad (Lyrics Video)

#FantasyFolk #BardSong #TavernMusic 🍺 The Bard speaks... "She set her lantern at the end of the pier and watched his sail go small against the stars. The tide came back. He never did. So she kept the light — for ten thousand nights." — Songs of a Bard ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📜 LYRICS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I set the lantern on the post, I coil the wet rope slow. I told myself I would not cry — the tide already turns below. The harbor holds its breath with me, the planks are dark and cold. Sail, grow small, small as one cold falling star — go where the black tide drags you down, and I will watch how far. The salt is on my mouth, the dark is on the sea — and I'll hold the light till the dark holds me. The canvas catches, pulls for the deep, your shape a smear of white. Maybe the wind will turn its mind, maybe you'll come back tonight. I count you smaller, breath by breath, and lie to keep you in sight. Sail, grow small, small as one cold falling star — go where the black tide drags you down, and I will watch how far. The salt is on my mouth, the dark is on the sea — and I'll hold the light till the dark holds me. The dark sea swallows the last of you, the stars hang low and thin. The tide comes back, the tide comes back — but you do not come in. I cannot fill that ribbon of black, the water won't let me in. Sail, grow small, small as one cold falling star — go where the black tide drags you down, and I will watch how far. The salt is on my mouth, the dark is on the sea — and I'll hold the light till the dark holds me. The sea took you where I cannot go, and gave no grave, no stone — so I will burn ten thousand nights and keep this shore alone. You'll lose my light before I lose your sail; I begged the sea to take it too — it would not take it, so the flame is mine to hold. The harbor stones have worn to sand, the docks I knew are gone. No ship alive can read this flame, but still I keep it on. I never turned and walked back home — I learned the dark by heart. Sail, grow small, small as one cold falling star — go where the black tide drags you down, and I will watch how far. The salt is on my mouth, the dark is on the sea — and I'll hold the light till the dark holds me. I lift it higher than I should for eyes that cannot see. The shore is dust, your sail is dust, and yet it stays with me. There is no closure in the tide — just me, the flame, the sea. Sail, grow small, small as one cold falling star — go where the black tide drags you down, and I will watch how far. The salt is on my mouth, the dark is on the sea — and I still hold the light till the dark holds me. Through every turning tide I'm here, the lantern in my hand. You'll never see how long I burned — I still hold the light. I still hold the light. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Songs of a Bard is a fireside corner of the fantasy world, where original bard songs and clever folk tales bring adventurers together — one song, one mug at a time. 🍺 Best Enjoyed With 🕯️ Emotional D&D farewells, character deaths & last goodbyes ✍️ Writing sessions and quiet creative nights 🌊 Sea voyages, harbor towns & parting scenes at your table ☕ Late nights, rain on the window, a candle burning low 💔 Anyone who has ever watched someone go 🎶 Style & Atmosphere ◦ Haunting Celtic / Sea-Faring Folk Ballad ◦ Fingerpicked Guitar, Lone Fiddle & Cello ◦ Solo Female Lead Vocals — intimate, no chorus ◦ Slow harbor-at-night, salt-and-starlight stillness ◦ Aching, longing, and quietly unbroken 🔔 Subscribe for new D&D bard songs!    / @songsofabard-n6w   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚖️ Usage & Attribution Music generated with AI assistance (Suno V5). Lyrics & creative direction: Songs of a Bard. Free to use for personal D&D sessions and non-commercial streams with credit. For commercial use, please contact us. #DnDMusic #TavernMusic #BardSong #FantasyMusic #SongsofaBard #MedievalMusic #CelticMusic #RPGMusic #TTRPGMusic #FolkMusic #DrinkingSong #FantasyFolk #GamingMusic