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 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 crew’s 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 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
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,
(This is the calm)
Calm me and let me taste the salt you breathed while you were underneath,
(We are the risen)
I am the one who haunts your dreams of mountains sunk below the sea,
(After the storm)
I spoke the words but never gave a thought of what they all could mean,
(Rest in the sea)
I know that this is what you want,
A funeral keeps both of us apart
(Washed up on the beach)
You know that you are not alone
I need you like water in my lungs
(This is the end)