Lyrics
[verse]
The lake they call the biggest of them all
Turns gentle waves to walls that rise and fall
A rusted iron hauler set her course for home
Never knowing she'd be sailing on alone
[verse]
November wind came howling from the north
The captain radioed the trouble coming forth
The crew held tight as darkness swallowed light
No lighthouse beam could pierce that fatal night
[chorus]
Down where the deep and silent water sleeps
A hull of iron in the shadows keeps
The names of men the cold lake would not spare
Carried down in the arms of the freezing air
[verse]
They say the church bells rang for every soul
Twenty-nine names carved in a granite scroll
The families gathered where the water met the shore
Waiting for a ship that came home nevermore
[bridge]
Where does the mercy go when the deep stays this cold
When each passing minute drags on like hours
That deep northern water won't yield up her dead
She holds them in her frozen towers
[chorus]
Down where the deep and silent water sleeps
A hull of iron in the shadows keeps
The names of men the cold lake would not spare
Carried down in the arms of the freezing air
