Play Crack The Sky Songtext / Lyric

We sent out the SOS call

It was a quarter past four

In the morning

When the storm broke our second anchor line

Four months at sea

Four months of calm seas

Only to be pounded in the shallows

Off of the tip of Montauk Point



They call them rogues

They travel fast and alone

One hundred foot faces

Of God's good ocean gone wrong

What they call love is a risk

To always get hit

Out of nowhere

By some wave and end up on your own






The hole in the hull defied the crews attempts

To bail us out

And flooded the engines and radio

And half buried bow



Your tongue is a rudder

It steers the whole ship

Sends your words past your lips

Or keeps them safe behind your teeth

But the wrong words will strand you

Come off course while you sleep

Sweep your boat out to sea

Or dashed to bits on the reef



The vessel groans

The ocean pressures its frame

Off the port I see the lighthouse

Through the sleet and the rain

And I wish for one more day

To give my love and repay debts

But the morning finds our bodies

Washed up thirty miles west



They say that the captain

Stays fast with the ship

Through still and storm

But this ain't the Dakota

The water's cold (so cold)

Won't have to fight for long



(This is the end)

This story's old (this is the end)

But it goes on and on

Until we disappear

(This is the calm)

Calm me and let me taste (this is the calm)

The salt you breathe

While you are underneath

(We are the resin)

I am the one who haunts your (we are the resin)

Dreams of mountains sunk

Below the sea

(After the storm)

I spoke the words but never (after the storm)

Gave a thought to what they all could mean

(Rest here with me)

I know that this (rest in the deep) is what you want

(Washed up on the beach)

A funeral keeps both of us apart

(Washed up on the beach)

You know that you are not alone

I need you like water in my lungs

This is the end



(This is the end)

This story's old (this is the end)

But it goes on and on

Until we disappear

(This is the calm)

Calm me and let me taste (this is the calm)

The salt you breathe

While you are underneath

(We are the resin)

I am the one who haunts your (we are the resin)

Dreams of mountains sunk

Below the sea

(After the storm)

I spoke the words but never (after the storm)

Gave a thought to what they all could mean

(Rest here with me)

I know that this (rest in the deep) is what you want

(Washed up on the beach)

A funeral keeps both of us apart

(Washed up on the beach)

You know that you are not alone

I need you like water in my lungs

This is the end



('Never to see any other way')