[00:09.21]It's all there in the gospels, the Magdalene girl
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[00:13.45]Comes to pay her respects, but her mind is awhirl.
[00:17.25]
[00:17.88]When she finds the tomb empty, the stone had been rolled,
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[00:22.63]Not a sign of a corpse in the dark and the cold.
[00:26.18]
[00:26.80]When she reaches the door, sees an unholy sight,
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[00:30.93]There's this solitary figure in a halo of light.
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[00:35.60]He just carries on floating past Calvary Hill,
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[00:40.10]In an almighty hurry, aye but she might catch him still.
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[00:44.90]"Tell me where are ye going Lord, and why in such haste?"
[00:48.77]
[00:49.39]"Now don't hinder me woman, I've no time to waste!
[00:53.12]
[00:53.69]For they're launching a boat on the morrow at noon,
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[00:58.24]And I have to be there before daybreak.
[01:00.49]
[01:02.18]Oh I canna be missing, the lads'll expect me,
[01:06.23]
[01:06.92]Why else would the good Lord himself resurrect me?
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[01:11.28]For nothing will stop me, I have to prevail,
[01:14.47]
[01:15.65]Through the teeth of this tempest, in the mouth of a gale,
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[01:19.83]May the angels protect me if all else should fail,
[01:24.52]When the last ship sails."
[01:27.26]
[01:30.03]Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,
[01:33.53]
[01:34.60]The noise at the end of the world in your ears,
[01:38.02]
[01:38.71]As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea,
[01:42.27]
[01:43.27]And the last ship sails.
[01:46.14]
[01:58.56]It's a strange kind of beauty,
[02:00.80]
[02:01.36]It's cold and austere,
[02:03.04]And whatever it was that ye've done to be here,
[02:06.16]
[02:07.24]It's the sum of yr hopes yr despairs and yr fears,
[02:11.03]
[02:11.84]When the last ship sails.
[02:14.71]
[02:16.40]Well the first to arrive saw these signs in the east,
[02:19.89]
[02:20.46]Like that strange moving finger at Balthazar's Feast,
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[02:25.44]Where they asked the advice of some wandering priest,
[02:29.01]
[02:29.76]And the sad ghosts of men whom they'd thought long deceased,
[02:34.24]And whatever got said, they'd be counted at least,
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[02:38.55]When the last ship sails.
[02:41.30]
[02:43.23]Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,
[02:47.41]
[02:48.54]The noise at the end of the world in your ears,
[02:51.84]
[02:52.72]As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea,
[02:56.34]
[02:57.22]And the last ship sails.
[02:59.96]
[03:01.02]And whatever you'd promised, whatever you've done,
[03:05.38]
[03:06.06]And whatever the station in life you've become.
[03:10.43]In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son,
[03:14.69]And whatever the weave of this life that you've spun,
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[03:19.24]On the Earth or in Heaven or under the Sun,
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[03:23.54]When the last ship sails.