Play Crack The Sky

  • 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 to be pounded in the shallows off the tip of Montauk Point.
  • 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.
  • The hole in the hull defied the crews attempts to bail us out.
  • And flooded the engines and radio and half buried bow.
  • 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 to bits on the reef.
  • The vessel groans the ocean pressures its frame.
  • To the port I see the lighthouse through the sleet and 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.

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