Chapter Two - The Old Man

[Verse 1]

The old man welcomes you aboard the boat

You look left, you look right, you look south, you look north

You see scallawags, scoundrels, just a tad down

Grills missing teeth

Legs missing feet, walk like a skewed beat

You get to thinking that maybe it’s not the right move

Your circumstances at home, maybe they’ll improve

Maybe you’ll pick up a job, get a spouse

Have three kids and a dog, live in a country house, but no

But there’s no way that I can go back (Uh-uh)

The sea is blue and the past is black (Yeah)

If I could see the future I would let you know

But time will say nothing but I told you so

His face is twisted like the trunk of a tree

Grown on the sidе of a cliff

All its roots clinging to scree

Well there’s a map and a plan and a distant land across a deep sеa

The goal of the company is to find a machine

You don’t quite comprehend

He says the fate of the world is completely in your hands

He says he’ll train you to do what heroes do

You do a double-take and balk at this loose old screw

You just check right out as he wraps up his speech

Exit the harbor, you look back at that sliver of beach

You held those rocks on your hand as a kid on the shore long before

But the past is no more

Yo, can you feel me now?

You get to thinking that maybe there’s nothing left to lose

The old man’s crazy but then again he’s paid his dues

Well you can tell he’s lived more life than you have

And as he goes below decks, you lose sight of the land, alone

But there’s no way that I can go back (Uh-uh)

The sea is blue and the past is black (Yeah)

If I could see the future I would let you know

But time will say nothing but I told you so

Time will say nothing but I told you so

Time will say nothing but I

Time will say nothing but I told you so

Time will say nothing but I

Time will say nothing but I told you so

Time will say nothing but I