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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