[Intro]
When the fog returns
Do not stand alone
When the fog returns
Listen to the foam

[Verse]
By morning there was nothing left
But wreckwood on the tide
A blackened bell, a broken chain
And names the sea had tried to hide

[Pre-Chorus]
The widow walked the empty shore
With sunrise in her hair
She found his coat upon the stones
But not his body there

[Chorus]
When the fog returns
And the cold waves climb
When the fog returns
Across the edge of time
You may hear a distant choir
You may see a lantern burn
Keep your candle from the window
When the fog returns

[Verse]
The village wrote the tale in ink
The children learned the rhyme
But sailors know the ocean keeps
A truth beneath the brine

[Pre-Chorus]
For mercy frees the willing heart
But curses leave a scar
And some old ships keep sailing still
Beyond the morning star

[Chorus]
When the fog returns
And the cold waves climb
When the fog returns
Across the edge of time
You may hear a distant choir
You may see a lantern burn
Keep your candle from the window
When the fog returns

[Instrumental]
Foghorn calling
Bell note falling
Oars not rowing
Dark tide flowing

[Bridge]
Perhaps they found a kinder shore
Perhaps they sleep at last
Perhaps the song we hear at night
Is only from the past

[Breakdown]
But if you wake
And the room is cold
And the glass turns white
And the moon grows old

[Build-up]
Do not answer
Do not pray
Do not follow
The song away

[Chorus]
When the fog returns
And the cold waves climb
When the fog returns
Across the edge of time
You may hear a distant choir
You may see a lantern burn
Keep your candle from the window
When the fog returns

[Chorus]
When the fog returns
And the harbor bells are still
When the fog returns
Over water, grave and hill
You may think the dead are free
You may think the tide has turned
But the sea remembers everything
When the fog returns

[Outro]
When the fog returns
Do not stand alone
When the fog returns
Listen to the foam
Out of the fog
Out of the foam
Far from the harbor
Far from home