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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