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Itâs all there in the gospels, the Magdalene girl
Comes to pay her respects, but her mind is awhirl.
When she finds the tomb empty, the stone had been rolled,
Not a sign of a corpse in the dark and the cold.
When she reaches the door, sees an unholy sight,
Thereâs this solitary figure in a halo of light.
He just carries on floating past Calvary Hill,
In an almighty hurry, aye but she might catch him still.
âTell me where are ye going Lord, and why in such haste?â
âNow donât hinder me woman, Iâve no time to waste!
For theyâre launching a boat on the morrow at noon,
And I have to be there before daybreak.
Oh I canna be missing, the ladsâll expect me,
Why else would the good Lord himself resurrect me?
For nothing will stop me, I have to prevail,
Through the teeth of this tempest, in the mouth of a gale,
May the angels protect me if all else should fail,
When the last ship sails.â
Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,
The noise at the end of the world in your ears,
As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea,
And the last ship sails.
Itâs a strange kind of beauty,
Itâs cold and austere,
And whatever it was that yeâve done to be here,
Itâs the sum of yr hopes yr despairs and yr fears,
When the last ship sails.
Well the first to arrive saw these signs in the east,
Like that strange moving finger at Balthazarâs Feast,
Where they asked the advice of some wandering priest,
And the sad ghosts of men whom theyâd thought long deceased,
And whatever got said, theyâd be counted at least,
When the last ship sails.
Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,
The noise at the end of the world in your ears,
As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea,
And the last ship sails.
And whatever youâd promised, whatever youâve done,
And whatever the station in life youâve become.
In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son,
And whatever the weave of this life that youâve spun,
On the Earth or in Heaven or under the Sun,
When the last ship sails.
- Album:
- Little Man
- 57th & 9th
- The Last Ship
- Miscellaneous
- Symphonicities
- Brand New Day
- Mercury Falling
- Fields Of Gold
- The Soul Cages
- Nada Como El Sol
- ...Nothing Like The Sun
- Bring On The Night
- The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
- At The Movies
- Sacred Love
- Songs From The Labyrinth
- Seven Days
- 57th & 9th (Deluxe)
- 50,000
- Petrol Head