Down down down under the sea There, right there, amongst the waters and the sands A mermaid of unimaginable beauty fled her homeland
An eye for an eye, heart for heart, two lovers wouldn't be torn apart To join a man above the waves, a precious treasure, she gave This impossible trade the mermaid made? She gave her tongue for legs so she might walk by his side In a world with words she couldn't speak, lived the mute bride
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She lived with bubbles beneath her tongue and the sound of ocean in her ears And yet, despite her rightful bloodline A desert is where she'd spent her years
The hair of a siren, with a voice like their song but the legs of a woman.. it was wrong, so wrong Her exotic, other-wordly looks, a sailor boy found striking And his familiar scent of salty breeze gave her a liking
Trailing calloused fingers through silky siren strands The sailor murmurs to his lover, "What would you do for me?"
"I would leave my homeland"
The tang on his skin of a home she's never seen, erase her troubles Giggling sweetly, she asks him, "And for me, my sweet, love?"