Serenade for the Dead
**Verse 1**
I had a vision
Of naked mermaids
Singing melodies
Under the moonlight
Voices resounding
Intoning the tale
Of a young man shot to death on the beach
**Chorus**
Under tide, they make me right
Dress me up in borrowed light
Cold mouth, nothing said
All their songs inside my head
Hands that I can never feel
Turn me into something real
Not a man, not a name
Just a body in their song
*Verse 2**
This young man
Of cigarette smoke swagger
Who lost all his savings on baseball odds
Discovered he never had any friends
Then had his blood drained into the ocean
**Chorus**
Under tide, they make me right
Dress me up in borrowed light
Cold mouth, nothing said
All their songs inside my head
Hands that I can never feel
Turn me into something real
Not a man, not a name
Just a body in their song
**Verse 3**
When his pale white body
Washed from the shore
Mermaids found he had a beautiful corpse
With naked frustration
They kissed his lips
Could only desire him through serenade
**Bridge**
Don’t wake me
Don’t break me
I’m better this way
No heartbeat
No daylight
Just voices that stay
You found me
You kept me
Where I couldn’t be
Now drown me
In something
That sounds like me
**Chorus**
Under tide, they make me right
Dress me up in borrowed light
Cold mouth, nothing said
All their songs inside my head
Hands that I can never feel
Turn me into something real
Not a man, not a name
Just a body in their song
Chris Trottier
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