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Intro

Verse 1

 We sent out the SOS call

 It was a quarter past four

 In the morning

 When the storm broke our

second anchor line

Four months at sea

 Four months of calm seas

 Only to be pounded

 in the shallows

 Off of the tip of Montauk Point

Verse 2

They call them rogues

 They travel fast and alone

One hundred foot faces

 Of God's good ocean gone wrong

 What they call love is a risk

 Cause you will always get hit

 Out of nowhere

 By some wave and end up on your own

Chorus 1

The hole in the hull defied

the crews attempts

To bail us out

And flooded the engines and

 radio And half buried bow

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Verse 3

 Your tongue is a rudder

 It steers the whole ship

 Sends your words past your lips

 Or keeps them safe behind your teeth

 But the wrong words will strand you

 Come off course while you sleep

 Sweep your boat out to sea

 Or dashed it to bits on the reef

Verse 4

The vessel groans

 The ocean pressures its frame

 Off the port I see the lighthouse

 Through the sleet and the rain

 And I wish for one more day

 To give my love and repay debts

 But the morning finds our bodies

 Washed up thirty miles west

Chorus 2

They say that the captain

 Stays fast with the ship

 Through still and storm

But this ain't the Dakota

 And the water is cold

 We won't have to fight for long

Outro

 This is the end

This story's old

But it goes on and on

 Until we disappear

Calm me and let me taste

The salt that you breathed

While you were underneath

I am the one who

haunts your dreams

Of mountains sunk

below the sea

I spoke the words but never

Gave a thought to what

they all could mean.

I know that this is what you want

A funeral keeps both of us apart

You know that you are not alone

Need you like water in my lungs

 This is the end

This story's old

But it goes on and on

 Until we disappear

Calm me and let me taste

The salt that you breathed

While you were underneath

I am the one who

haunts your dreams

Of mountains sunk

below the sea

I spoke the words but never

Gave a thought to what

they all could mean.

I know that this is what you want

A funeral keeps both of us apart

You know that you are not alone

Need you like water in my lungs

 Thsi is the end