"Lover's wreck", my new favourite song

A hundred days at sea, A wretch away from misery

Rummies and rats and tarry jacks my only family

The island of salvation is still a scream a way

As the lungs of the night blow out the light my heart kneels down to pray

Lord why did you take her

She meant so much to me

Now I’m a wretched soul on a privateer drowning out at sea

I’m killing and I’m drinking my blue heart to black

But I swear, oh Lord, I’ll never sin again if you bring her back

Gypsy was a siren, Dripping with desire

Her moonless hair and skin so fair as warm as frozen fire

She had the loyalty of a cat, behind those pale green eyes

And through her cherry lips the devil slipped, a thousand lies

A clan of rogues and vagabonds occupied her head

That thieving band took her pale white hand and stole her from my bed

And like a ghost ship in the night she drifted out once more

To land upon the sand of another lover’s shore

Lord why did you take her

she meant so much to me

Now I’m a wretched soul on a privateer

drowning out at sea

I’m killing and I’m drinking my blue heart to black

But I swear, oh Lord, I’ll never sin again

If you bring her back

In my sleeping mind she sings a sad and lonely lullabye

When I wake there’s just the ache it will haunt me till I die

When those winds of vanity no longer blow her west

I pray they’ll guide her home (across the foam) and put my heart to rest

Press gang filled this Man-o-War

To make the black mouthed cannon roar

Now all my trade is ball and blade, 

and blood forever more

And the sting of salt and spray,

the ocean’s howl and squall

A stumbling wreck, I roam the deck,

at the devil’s beck and call.. at the devil’s beck and call

Oh, Lord, why did you take her

She meant so much to me

Now I’m a wretched soul on a privateer

Drowning out at sea

I’m killing and I’m drinking my blue heart to black

But I swear, oh Lord, I’ll never sin again

if you bring her back