May It Last (feat. Wayne Duvall & John Gallagher Jr.)

Six bells, sir, all's well, shall I mark the log?

Do you see the phosphorus on the ocean there? All glowing and green, it's an omen, that

Sir?

The glow in the waves there, it's meant to be an ill omen

A portent of witches above and tempests below, of cruel weather ahead

Do you believe in such premonitions?

I'm a sailor, I believe in everything

I was a cabin boy at eight, you know

Spent my life at sea, hunting the whales from one ocean to the next

Wife and children left behind, and no regrets for that if I'm honest

My place was always here

Do you truly not miss the land, sir?

What am I on shore? An old man with unsteady legs

A tiny man, here I'm a giant

Here I'm a man who faces down God himself

You're not a seafaring man by nature, you can't understand the great tragedy of the sea

Tragedy, sir?

There is a sea, and I am a captain

Of something unknown, waves high as mountains

There is a key, and there is a light

Here's to times that I catch it

May it last through the night

When the engine won't turn

When the fire won't burn

Like it did when we felt it

Deep in our hearts

You're the one reason why

I look up and smile

Wishing for love

And I'm ready to forge ahead

There is a sea, and I am a captain

Of something unknown, waves high as mountains

There is a key, and there is a light

Here's to times that I catch it

May it last through the night

You've found the life that suits you, sir, that's a rare thing

Not that it matters, when all's said, no one wants us anymore, my friend

No one needs whale oil, we have paraffin now and kerosene

Kerosene, and a whole way of life is finished just like that

And what do we whalers do then? Go to port? Take up some landward trade?

Sell scrimshaw to the tourists? Or do we just disappear?

Hell, what are we but useless men hunting a vanishing prey in a dying trade?

I'm as low as they come

I'm what shouldn't be done

Filthy and lost

Still up for trying

Untie the rudder

Guide them away

Take me, I'll serve you

Take me, I'll serve

There is a sea, and I am a captain

Of something unknown, waves high as mountains

There is a key, and there is a light

Here's to times that I catch it

May it last through the night

May it last through the night