Call the Ships to Port

The sailors: A metaphor for the daring, brave individuals...like the ones that would venture out to sea before the earth was known to be round. They have gone...in light of logic and science, there are no dreamers anywhere but in the stories. I think that's exactly what the line "The line becomes a circle" means. The flat earth became round thanks to discovery. But one of Covenant resounding themes is seeming to inspire...to ask the question of "Where are the ones that will stand up and make a difference?" I think the same theme is present in "Brave New World". I could be wrong, but that's my take.

My father used to use the saying "Call the ships to port" as a phrase that means to take time to gather yourself. This song seems to be describing a pivotal moment that's going to change your life for better or for worse and if you take the moment to pause and second guess your decisions you could really lose it all.

Which the line where he gets louder and says "Tonight we light the fires, we call our ships to port, tonight we walk on water and tomorrow we'll be gone" sounds like the singer's decision to go all in with everything he has and risk it all for a goal that he knows might break him. The 'walking on water' I think describes his feeling of being untouchable.

Some parts of this song remind me of the story of a famous shipwreck in Sweden a few hundred years ago. I think it was called the Vasa. This song is a highpoint of any live Covenant show, really. It does seem to be about the pivotal moments in life, and the tenuous hold we have on it. Some of it seems more specific, though, and I'm not sure what those parts refer to. I can connect it to more than a few personal things, but I'm not sure what the writer intended. I love it, though.

i think its about living for the moment like a lot of people have said but in the negative sense. like "burning books" could mean accidentally destroying parts of the past. and also how many parts of the world and such were accidentally discovered as in "a mountain of mistakes, for us to climb for pleasure"

Great new single of their new album Northern Light! I love it.

What's your favorite remix? My personal favorites are the Kaylab Version and Single Version.

The Single verson is my favorite. Covenant really came through with this one! I can't wait for the album, it's gonna be so ace!

I saw Covenant live on Saturday and this song was the highlight of the whole festival!! Amazing!!!!!!!!! Beat and lyrics.

This song is entierly about living in the now, but not to burn your past or you wont have a future.

So much of Covenant's music concerns longing for transcendence and immortality. The perspective is often that of an outsider, observing the world, the universe, or the cycle of life and death objectively and impartially, as though detached from it. Though sometimes he is within it, and there is a dichotomous theme of the joy of existence coupled with the agony of inevitable annihilation.

I like to imagine that this song concerns a long-forgotten mythic ritual that tied a community of isolated and alienated individuals to its collective identity, and was suddenly remembered or discovered. "The sailors" represent the mythic lore kept in this ritual, that over time lost its significance, just a children's bedtime story. The mythic value was lost in the interest of pragmatic value, and the eternal collective consciousness of the people was lost in the interest of pleasure. But the reasons that the community needed the lost mythic value are the same reasons that will bring them back to it. It's that, individually, life is haphazard, ephemeral, accidental, and absurd, and there's no escaping that. Individually, they are countless lonely voices, whispering in the dark. But collectively there is history, progress, continuity, meaning, transcendence, and immortality. Lighting the fires, calling the ships to port, means rediscovering this ancient wisdom before we're gone.