[00:07.51]It’s all there in the gospels, the Magdalene girl
[00:12.66]Comes to pay her respects, but her mind is awhirl.
[00:17.51]When she finds the tomb empty, the stone had been rolled,
[00:22.37]Not a sign of a corpse in the dark and the cold.
[00:26.90]When she reaches the door, sees an unholy sight,
[00:30.99]There’s this solitary figure in a halo of light.
[00:34.90]He just carries on floating past Calvary Hill,
[00:39.56]In an almighty hurry, aye but she might catch him still.
[00:44.22]“Tell me where are ye going Lord, and why in such haste?”
[00:49.41]“Now don’t hinder me woman, I’ve no time to waste!
[00:53.91]For they’re launching a boat on the morrow at noon,
[00:57.93]And I have to be there before daybreak.
[01:01.45]Oh I canna be missing, the lads’ll expect me,
[01:06.83]Why else would the good Lord himself resurrect me?
[01:14.42]For nothing will stop me, I have to prevail,
[01:18.07]Through the teeth of this tempest, in the mouth of a gale,
[01:22.97]May the angels protect me if all else should fail,
[01:27.98]When the last ship sails.”
[01:31.43]Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,
[01:37.38]The noise at the end of the world in your ears,
[01:41.92]As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea,
[01:46.30]And the last ship sails.
[01:50.34]It’s a strange kind of beauty,
[02:04.81]It’s cold and austere,
[02:06.55]And whatever it was that ye’ve done to be here,
[02:10.88]It’s the sum of yr hopes yr despairs and yr fears,
[02:14.67]When the last ship sails.
[02:18.49]Well the first to arrive saw these signs in the east,
[02:23.73]Like that strange moving finger at Balthazar’s Feast,
[02:28.22]Where they asked the advice of some wandering priest,
[02:33.08]And the sad ghosts of men whom they’d thought long deceased,
[02:37.33]And whatever got said, they’d be counted at least,
[02:41.55]When the last ship sails.
[02:45.16]Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,
[02:51.45]The noise at the end of the world in your ears,
[02:55.85]As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea,
[03:00.30]And the last ship sails.
[03:03.84]And whatever you’d promised, whatever you’ve done,
[03:09.46]And whatever the station in life you’ve become.
[03:13.79]In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son,
[03:18.06]And whatever the weave of this life that you’ve spun,
[03:22.33]On the Earth or in Heaven or under the Sun,
[03:26.73]When the last ship sails.
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