Overboard

Lyrics

Gentlemen, listen right now as I speak I fear that this ship of ours has sprung a leak The sea, she is coming to take us an inch at a time It's roaring in faster than buckets can fill I fear it's a matter of minutes until From belly to mast we'll be deeper than any can climb And all of this now with the shore plain in sight We might make it yet if the load could be light But what sort of life do you think we'll afford If we have to throw all that we have overboard? The gold in our coffers is weighing us down We shan't spend a cent if we're certain to drown And none can come with you at all in the life after this So gather your treasures and cast them away And if you are swift then I hope and I pray We won't soon be up to our eyes in a watery kiss And if one among you at all hesitates Remind them this is for the lives of their mates But what sort of life do you think we'll afford If we have to throw all that we have overboard? See now the spoils in motion Straight to the heart of the ocean Down in the drink, every glimmering piece You watch as they sink while the waters increase Just slow enough to renew life's intolerable lease At last we arrive clinging onto the sails And leap to the dock when it finally fails The ship where we spent seven months as we circled the globe The price that we paid sure is awfully steep Behind us the trail that shines in the deep Could only be seen by an angler's most luminant lobe We came as we left now with only our lives The glory is gone but the story survives So what sort of life do you think we'll afford Now we've had to throw all that we have overboard? Yes what sort of life do you think we'll afford Now we've had to throw all that we have overboard?