Calamity - David Cross

Calamity

And where the wind does blow

My wretched ship will go

Been cast upon the waves

With a hundred souls to save

The harbour’s smashed in pieces

And the lighthouse keeper’s old

He been sleeping on the job

And he blind to my morse code

We’re sinking fast

Your father’s thunder blew us both halfway to France

And he’d have put me under given the chance

The cargo’s overboard

We been hungry for three weeks

Red whiskey eyes have I

Now the hull’s begun to leak

Calamity, my girl

Is there something you could lose?

A few small bars o' gold?

Maybe fifty pairs of shoes?

We’re sinking fast

I’ve never known a girl that leaves so much to chance

So let the ocean do its worst and dance with me

Calamity, my girl

I’m a sea-sick, drunken wreck

Can’t dance for all the water

That’s swallowing my deck

We’re sinking fast

The wind has changed and left us both no time to think

So let the ocean do it’s worst and sink with me