The Last Ship

[00:08.87] It's all there in the Gospels
[00:11.79] The Magdalene girl comes to pay her respects
[00:15.88] But her mind is awhirl
[00:17.43] When she finds the tomb empty
[00:20.43] The stone had been rolled
[00:22.38] Not a sign of a corpse in the dark and the cold
[00:26.46] When she reaches the door, sees an unholy sight
[00:30.95] There's this solitary figure in a halo of light
[00:35.26] He just carries on, floating past Calvary Hill
[00:39.81] In an almighty hurry, aye, but she might catch him still
[00:44.77] "Tell me where are you going, Lord
[00:47.18] And why in such haste?"
[00:49.26] "Now don't hinder me, woman
[00:51.66] I've no time to waste
[00:53.53] For they're launching a boat on the 'morrow at noon
[00:58.05] And I have to be there before daybreak"
[01:02.30] "Oh, I cannot be missing, the lads'll expect me
[01:06.99] Why else would the good Lord himself resurrect me?
[01:10.75] For nothing'll stop me, I have to prevail
[01:15.40] Through the teeth of this tempest, in the mouth of a gale
[01:19.63] May the angels protect me if all else should fail
[01:24.29] When the last ship sails"
[01:28.52] Oh, the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers
[01:34.47] The noise at the end of the world in your ears
[01:38.45] As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea
[01:43.06] And the last ship sails
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[01:58.22] It's a strange kind of beauty
[02:01.25] It's cold and austere
[02:02.84] And whatever it was that you've done to be here
[02:07.13] It's the sum of your hopes, your despairs, and your fears
[02:11.75] When the last ship sails
[02:16.10] Well, the first to arrive saw these signs in the East
[02:20.41] Like that strange moving finger at Balthazar's Feast
[02:25.02] Where they asked the advice of some wandering priest
[02:29.92] And the sad ghosts of men whom they'd thought long deceased
[02:33.93] And whatever they got said, they'd be counted at least
[02:38.60] When the last ship sails
[02:42.39] Oh, the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers
[02:48.27] The noise at the end of the world in your ears
[02:52.56] As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea
[02:57.10] And the last ship sails
[03:00.84] And whatever you'd promised
[03:04.04] Whatever you've done
[03:05.86] And whatever the station in life you've become
[03:10.30] In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son
[03:14.59] And whatever the weave of this life that you've spun
[03:19.01] On the Earth or in Heaven or under the sun
[03:23.69] When the last ship sails
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