Lifeboat - Intellectual

I. Nearer Now To Heaven

(Instrumental)

II. Fitful Dreams

Fitful dreams of drowning in my sleep

Thrashing in the darkness of the deep

Gasping, never knowing if I'd breathe again

Sirens from the surface as the ship began to shake

I was cast into this nightmare wide awake

Everyone on the lifeboat, the ship is going down

The captain left the bridge and now he's nowhere to be found

Pray for every soul again, we'll walk on solid ground

Everyone on the lifeboat, the ship is going down

Listing hard the first mate took the helm

Ever unprepared and overwhelmed

Destined by Three Fates to fail - "We're doomed" he cried

Nearer now to Heaven, I'm a man of mortal sin

I'm afraid that God will never let me in

Everyone on the lifeboat, the ship is going down

The captain left the bridge and now he's nowhere to be found

Pray for every soul again, we'll walk on solid ground

Everyone on the lifeboat, the ship is going down

III. Dull The Sword Of Damocles

A promise of adventure so I went to sea

To reinvent my destiny

I disavowed my demons

But they followed me

On a voyage to the dark side

Some are willing, some are shanghaied

Every ripple hides a riptide unforeseen

Fate's a cruel machine

Time's the enemy

As I wait

God, dull the sword of Damocles

They will hunt me down, lord help me please

I am on my knees and praying

There's a hole in my heart that is shaped like you

Hold it up to the light, you can see right through

I was only trying to hide, I wasn't straying

Living in the past where the rent was cheap

My goals were shallow but my gene pool deep

Guess I missed the news one morning

I was fast asleep

What had started as a cold war

Heated quickly with an uproar

Soldiers settling an old score mercilessly

Hellish harmony

Will they come for me

As I wait

God, dull the sword of Damocles

They will hunt me down, lord help me please

I am on my knees and praying

There's a hole in my heart that is shaped like you

Hold it up to the light, you can see right through

I was only trying to hide, I wasn't straying

IV. Never More Than Human

Maybe there is no tomorrow

God is testing my belief

Endless seas, impending sorrow

Death may be my last relief

Now I drift a lowly crewman

I was destined by my birth

To be never more than human

I was bound unto this earth

Save me

I was young, in need of answers

Asked my father for advice

Life, he said, is taking chances

If you don't, boy, best think twice

Ebbing waves, embracing violence

Heartened by my hopes of land

Rowing like a ghost in silence

Praying soon my oars touch sand

Save me

Now I drift a lowly crewman

I was destined by my birth

To be never more than human

I was bound unto this earth

Save me

V. What Happens When You Die

Maybe no one's left to rescue me

Overhead the storm clouds won't recede

Trying to believe but I just can't pretend

Twilight at the end, the northern lights dance across the sky

I don't want to know what happens when you die

Will I be forgotten evermore?

Will I walk on Heaven's golden shore?

Angels offer comfort as a calm descends

Twilight at the end, the northern lights dance across the sky

I don't want to know what happens when you die

Twilight at the end, the northern lights dance across the sky

I don't want to know what happens when you die

Twilight at the end, the northern lights dance across the sky

I don't want to know what happens when you die