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Scored and Sworn V3
Prelude sank with all her hostAlone on the banks of Azura's coast.Curséd treasures were theirs to haul.The Hlaalu never retrieved them all.
*They're scorned, scorned and sworn,
To adorn graves so forlorn...*
Mutinous hands on the Emma MayFled black storms o'er Niben Bay.The Panther's fangs hooked in her planksAnd sent all aboard to the goners' ranks.
*They're scorned, scorned and sworn,
To adorn graves so forlorn...*
*They're scorned, sworn to obscurity
As time wipes minds of their memory
And the vermin feast and the rot yet grows.
Someday, we'll all be freed of life's throes.*
Bloated Float suffered thieves who stoleHer out to sea hunting unreal gold.Dead they fell to a lodger's swordAnd on the return went overboard.
*They're scorned, scorned and sworn,
To adorn graves so forlorn...*
Anvil's port quartered Serpent's WakeWith no one aware of the crewmen's fate.A cutthroat struck for a cause unlearnedAnd left wraiths angered at existence spurned.
*They're scorned, scorned and sworn,
To adorn graves so forlorn...*
*They're scorned, sworn to obscurity
As time wipes minds of their memory
And the vermin feast and the rot yet grows.
Someday, we'll all be freed of life's throes.*
Deep in the caverns of Black Rock,A ship sits trapped in eternal dock.While her buccaneers' ghosts pace and bemoanTheir ends brought about by caved-in stone.
*They're scorned, scorned and sworn,
To adorn graves so forlorn...*
Icerunner ran aground one nightWhen Solitude's lighthouse lost its light.Bandits cut through the shaken crewThen turned on each other and perished too.
*They're scorned, scorned and sworn,
To adorn graves so forlorn...*
*They're scorned, sworn to obscurity
As time wipes minds of their memory
And the vermin feast and the rot yet grows.
Someday, we'll all be freed of life's throes.*
Pilgrim's Trench 'neath the northern frostHide's many vessels long since lost.Natural mistakes or magic lure,Nobody knows, but what's for sure,
*They're scorned, scorned and sworn,
To adorn graves so forlorn...*
Solstheim-bound flew an airborne ship.A vain wizard bade them make the trip.Ice storms froze them and their steam.Down they fell to a fate foreseen.
*They're scorned, scorned and sworn,
To adorn graves so forlorn...*
*They're scorned, sworn to obscurity
As time wipes minds of their memory
And the vermin feast and the rot yet grows.
Someday, we'll all be freed of life's throes.*
Lain on the beds of unknown seas,Lonely shores, or near cities,Ghosts of ships and the ones they boreHaunt where they lay forevermore.
*They're scorned, scorned and sworn,
To adorn graves so forlorn...*
*Scorned, scorned and sworn,
To adorn graves so forlorn...*
*Scorned, scorned and sworn,
To adorn graves so forlorn...*
*Scorned, scorned and sworn,
To adorn graves so forlorn...*