On Stirring Seas Of Salted Blood Lyrics

Lyric discussion by HankHell 

Cover art for On Stirring Seas Of Salted Blood lyrics by Black Dahlia Murder, The

This song is probably an allegory for war. The ship is a warship since it has cannons, and the skeletons are even said to be the ghosts of war. “The prisoners of her endless quest a burial at ancient sea that cannot rest in fucking peace” is saying that the art of war is very old and is unlikely to ever go away. The prisoners are said to be at their final resting place, which tells that the warriors are being condemned to a lingering, hell-like death. Being in a war makes them already half-dead, which is shown by the fact that they are skeletons living a purgatorial afterlife, never to return to the lives they knew before.