[Part I]

[Verse 1]

You breathe in

Open up your eyes to daylight, begin

And start another life, as you taste the wind

It blows the dust away, you see the wreckage

The queen lies vanquished, not a single living vestige is there to be seen

And the world is so green

The former slaves celebrate, now freed

They sing of a hero whose miraculous deeds will be told and retold throughout posterity

You’ve got something, but that’s nothing

If you really want to jam, then raise the bunting or head home

Yeah, head wherever you please

You’ve seen the underworld and survived the seas

Not bad for a young nobody

The world is cruel; it can be so bloody

But the world makes and the world takes

It’s not fair, but it’s a constant exchange

[Bridge]

There was a strange old man with a strange old plan

Hard to think that everything was happenstance

There was a fight on a boat and a wave that was rogue

A violent birth into the unknown

A journey underground

A terrible sound

Some bots, a queen, a violent scream

A memory of home with a flash of green

Yeah, what you’ve seen

Yo, it will never be seen again

Out

[Part II]

[Verse 2]

His face is twisted like the trunk of a tree (Uh-uh)

You turn a corner, expecting the coroner

Such hubris, lugubrious

Now in medias res

That played out so many times for your so very many crimes

You’ve done nothing

You’ve won nothing

Become nothing

You’ve seen nothing

You’ve learned nothing

You’ve saved nothing

You’ve found nothing

But admiral Akbar warned you that this would be a trap

Bioluminescent mushrooms and glow worms, they guide you

As something new and strange stirs inside you

You stagger to stern, you stagger to port

The sailor, he laughs with a proud snort

The others now join in

Laughing with breaths of stale gin

Moss, streams, crystals, trees (You suddenly wish you had stayed home, the sailor appears like a cyclone)

Purple amethyst jut forth here and somehow subsist

We’re halfway into our lives

Long gone are the drugs and the night drives

We’ve kissed goodbye to our wives

But your life’s so tenuous (No shelter, seeing just who survives)

There was a time when you were a child

When life was lush and your hair was wild

You see scallawags, scoundrels, just a tad down

Grills missing teeth

Legs missing feet, walk like a skewed beat

Your memory’s just like a drug

A siren’s call that will tug

But now you’re tied to the mast

You live now and not in the past (Flashes of lightning betray the waves in your eye, you go)

The old man lowers you down as he frowns at the storm clouds

The thundercracks become loud now

Uh, lush, green port by the sea

You contort cautiously as you slip between the crates and grates

Stacks of gold plates, scales with weights

A beggar vagabond grey-hat street-rat orphan

You grew up poor and forcing situations so that you could survive

Time says I told you so

But you know time has no flow

Just moments stitched at the seams (Seams)

Discrete like daylight and dreams

Time says I told you so

But you know time has no flow

Just moments stitched at the seams (Seams)

Discrete like daylight and dreams

[Outro]

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

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

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