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Nave Mercantile
03:20
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Oh the soldiers are chasing me
A lot of things that I had to steal
To find a way to escape
Came round the corner to an alleyway
Although the chasers have gone astray
I have to leave this bay
I’m still way too young to face this threat
They want to see me trapped and hanged
I’ve no more reasons to stay
There’s a walker staring with a trustless face
And I don’t mind being betrayed
People are the same
They’re all the same…
At the port I meet my Henry
He’s a friend in need
He knows a smuggler departing
Say goodbye to my Emily
She’s a keeper at Joe’s inn
For long, she hasn’t talked to me
As I can’t wash my sins off
Emily said I made a big mistake
She was out of her mind when she saw my shade
On the windowpane
I said I was sorry being bad to her
Putting her life to such danger
On that crucial day
She sighed and she asked me to leave her place
But I had a reason to hesitate
Still longing for an embrace
But she turned her back and I had no time
Her tongue was tied but I knew she cried
She was a mourning fay
And now I’m a stowaway
And she’s far far away now
Nave mercantile
Refugees in her chest
Let them have a long lull
Nave mercantile
Let me leave this land
Cover me in your dark hull
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Far out on the dark blue waters
The ocean leads one’s fate
And thats exactly how Captain Sturgess
Crossed the Queen Ann’s way
“Rise, rise! The pirates have come for our lives
Fight, fight! Tonight we cannot die!”
Sturgess’ fearsome figure
Intimidated all his men
So the men were all loading the cannons
And tightened the sails with all their strength
“Rise, rise! These bastards have come for our lives
Fight, fight! This isn’t the final hour!”
But oh, the truth is cruel
For by midnight Teach owned crew and ship
But hark!
In the distance a flash of white light
But hark!
There’s rumble in Heavens up high
But hark!
The great black sky starts pouring down
And suddenly the hurricane strikes them with full might
By the morning light
Debris littered the sight
And Sturgess floted on a broken board
Good fortune on his side
Rise, rise! The ocean is breaking your life
Fight, fight, until your last hour
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3. |
Sails of Adversity
04:34
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We’ve been sailing for two months and a week
No sign of land, no ships, there’s just waves, after waves, after waves of salt water…
Where did we come from? Where do we go?
Brand new leaders of a brand new world, ha!
We set out to find, but oh, what false conceptions
Avid mirage of foolish eyes
I’m a captain who is loyal but sane
Leading a crew that’s nearly deranged
Trying to serve my King and my country
But out here, I’ve got a feeling that my country ceased to care about me
Climate’s killing, food stocks are down
All booze is gone and there’s no women in sight, not single sweet lady to brighten a soldier’s heart
A grim outlook, no stimuli
My men’s aggravation’s on the rise
And I don’t know what to do about it
An air of mutiny soaks my ship’s sails
I’m a captain who’s loyal but sane
Leading a crew that’s already raged
Trying to serve my King and my country
But out here, I’ve got a feeling that my luck chooses to walk out on me
So one night the madness begins
With Lieutenant Grayson drawing his sword on me
He says “Captain we have chewed the fat and things are a-change
We’re tired and we’re hungry and we won’t be killed
So your choice is to turn this ship around or to jump into the sea”
And I don’t reply, I just jump overboard
I was a captain more loyal than sane
I lead a crew of men who have forsaken me
I’ve tried so hard to serve my King and country
But my God chooses to put me on a road towards some darker days
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Wasters' Island
03:42
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There’s a shore where sea dogs go,
A strand of black desire
An island where they trap themselves
To spree away their lives
Staggering through the Caribbean fog
Towards the glimmering lights
Lured by the clouds of opiates that flood them in the night
On Wasters’ Island there’s not one
Not a single steady head
World travellers who have gone to the end
Smell of substance everywhere, more smoke then there is air
Puffed-up lads lie on the ground just gazing away their time
Where they come from no one knows but no one really cares
Its a sanctuary for long lost souls who want to end.
On Wasters’ Island there’s not one
Not a single steady head
World travellers who have gone to the end
Then came back
On Wasters’ Island there’s not one
Not a single steady head
Old sea dogs who got nothing from the end
(World travellers who have gone to the end)
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Stripling's Song
03:54
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We know where the kids are hiding
Hiding from the mandatory marching
Lazy, coward, unambitious striplings all they are
And will never learn to take care of their officers in charge
They didn’t want to join the holy army
They’ve been drinking and attending dirty parties,
Dancing with the nation’s enemies instead, all night
And the morning after never sees them dressed well in their tights
(No place to go)
(No place, no hope for us)
(Shut the doors!)
(There’s no place to go!)
(Shut the doors!)
(Hide the girls and the boys!)
(The soldiers are getting close!)
The young sailors have to decide
If they want to swim with the tide
Or if they want to stay inside
Step to the left then to the right
They’ll grow on like the must on the fruit
Like the rust on the chains, they’ll pollute the truth
Once filled with hope that they can change it all
And turn the wheels around
Still ending up in bars and waiting for the answers to be found
What shall we show to be kept away
From the gallows and slavery lives
And what shall we hide to stay
True to our visions and plans to take our own sides
Show your love, show what they want to see
Hide your heart and hide the things that you want to keep
Once you open the doors
There’ll be no love waiting
Nowhere go
No shelter to run to
It starts all over
Once you open the doors
There’ll be no love waiting
No place go
No place to run to
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6. |
Lost and Free
03:45
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All I ever wanted
Was to have an evil battleship
To be a new society’s relentless king
And not to give a fuck about anything
Everything I wanted
Was to be lost and was to be free
Catch me with your eyes
I’ll be lost into the night for long
(Before you realize)
We’re identified
By the clinkin’ of the knives we hold
Oh but that’s only for the nighttime
All I ever wanted
Was to be on a never-ending holiday trip
With a gang of whores and bastards and a couple of drinks
Ignoring whatever anyone would think
“Mercy me”, he cries
He’s not undetected by the lost souls
A victim of the crime,
The haven heard the terrifying howls
Oh but that’s just an event the night hides
Soon there everything will be on our side
We’re gonna steal all the money from the rich just for fun
We’re gonna dance around this ugly town before we see the sun
We’re gonna rise above the upper classes with their wealthy stuff
We’re gonna disappear again when we had enough
Catch me with your eyes
I’m here but in a trice I’ll be gone
Too severe to die
It doesn’t matter how you try
It’s over for you,
It’s over for you
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Bombay Town
03:05
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One summer night
I walk down to the harbor sipping wine
From a bottle that I found
The big moon is high
It lights up the dark streets of Bombay Town
Bad luck for thievish thoughts…
Open windows all glowing, with music pouring out
Pianos, ukuleles, old guitars
Such sultry nights will turn on everyone
The colony is having fun
Oh, so far from home but happy
Tonight no eyelids can go heavy
I reach the docks and drop into a bar
Named Larry’s Battered Barge
Smoke of cigars
Obscures the shady faces of the crowd
And I hear brattle along shouts
Two drunk muggers start fighting over who gets what and why
The bartender keenly tries to stop the brawl
He say “There’s enough rum for everyone,
So let the party go on”
But the response doesn’t make him merry
A pint of ale flies towards Larry
Oh, always full of life, sweet Bombay Town
You could never let me down
Yet by the dawn
I leave you once again for the unknown
And that’s where I go wrong
But I’m a stowaway bandit and the ocean gets me on
The bilge of merchant ships drift me along
Oh, but the night is young and I am thirsty
Rum will wash away the worry
“Larry, pass me one then many!”
Lord help me say goodbye sweet, old, vibrant Bombay Town
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Men Named Holger Budapest, Hungary
A collaboration of two multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriters, aiming to blend vintage sounds with modernity. The concept of 'Maelstrom Ahead!' is based on nautical themes, fictional sailors and pirates, all summarized into one big adventure.
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