'ere lies sea wolf
'ere dies sea wolf
proud charge o' the deep sea, sea wolf.
Plowed 'neath t' deep blue cold
Wolf’s teeth, wolf brow, wolf’s hands and toes.
Plowed 'neath t' deep blue cold
With all her hands both new and old.
Wot give for one more chance this deed,
Old man beg take me back,
To the drift before the dying yell
To the fall before the crack.
As Blue death tore through the hull
Buried island broke her boughs.
Tossing men like rag dolls sleeping
Like scraps left out for the crows.
Heard screaming through the thick'ning clouds
As they fell down to the sea,
Through wind and fog and sleet and ice
He came to bury thee.
Sea wolf to the deep.
Sea wolf to the deep.
Cold shuddered eyes freeze over
As they ready for the sleep.
Old mans arms pull thee down
t'where no light could pull you back.
Was just listnen' for the spotter's sound
When we fell upon the crack.
Thrown high and low and far and near
Just th’ faintest call wot gave us fear
Of the deep yea, of the deep.
All hands pulled down to th' sleep.
And our mothers never saw us home.
And our brothers set to sea alone.
And our mothers never saw us home.
And our brothers set to sea alone.
Lost Sea wolf to the deep.
Lone Sea wolf to the deep.
Cold shuddered eyes freeze over
As they ready for the sleep.
Cause the wall and the buried isles tore,
tore the wolf in two.
On the heart of a perfect storm alive
whose breathing steady drew,
The ship astray
From the light of day
To the pitch and the howl
And the groan and the growl
Of the timber spent
Luck was lent.
but the wolf was tore in two.
the wolf was tore in two.
Nimitz called
called in his greed
through the old man sea
to the wildest steed
to the eraser head
to the noblest deed.
Call! Sea wolf to the deep.
Yea! Sea wolf to the deep.
Cold shuddered eyes freeze over
As they ready for the sleep.
eyes clawed through
blackening stew,
burnt crisp with salt
and ice right through.
the digging gaze
hailed the haze
aside but never
solved the maze,
of crumbling mountains
blue and black.
the sunken isles.
the tumbling crack.
that tore the wolf in two.
tore the sea wolf in two.
one by one
hand and foot
the fires set’lled
burnt flesh and soot.
the floors turned up.
the sky fell down.
old man crept in
took back his crown.
his minions wind
and fog and sleet
bore down upon
th' remainder fleet
and pulled them far
and pulled them near.
as they barreled forth
they hail'd no fear
and reason gone
‘hind hatred fire
to find the wolf
their sole desire.
far fleet down to the deep.
far fleet down to the deep.
Cold shuddered eyes freeze over
As they ready for the sleep.
if th’ fleet did see
the down below
t’where her masts
and crew did go
they’d never push’d
through black and hell.
and one by one
by two they fell,
on buried pillars
sunken isles,
their hulls cracked through,
and heard for miles,
the screams of men
who burn’d and drown
as the old man took them
took them down.
All souls down to the deep.
with th'Sea wolf to the deep.
Cold shuddered eyes freeze over
As they ready for the sleep.
between mother land,
and father sea,
they know not more
‘tween you and me.
just final resting in the deep.
the crew o’ wolf done set the sleep;
right ‘long side
as they set’lled in
the whole o’ the fleet
resolved their sins.
in dreamy dance
the corpses huddle,
ten score and more
amongst the rubble.
if dead eyes spoke
which some swear do,
they answer’d call,
and questions too,
alas quarrel was
less than the storm.
but still forsaken
homes still warm,
and widowed wives,
and orphaned sons,
all for sake of
sins been done.
God's children to the deep.
with the Sea wolf to the deep
Cold shuddered eyes freeze over
As they ready for the sleep.
so on this night
to the howlin sound,
remember then
the men gone down,
and know then when
the reckoning come,
not by hand of man,
nor by his guns,
is judgment made
or salvation sold,
not powerful seat,
or boulions gold,
made crew and wolf
set reckoning.
upon last light
the king of kings!
yea mates and martyrs
one by one,
laid down for keeps
the journey done.
Sea wolf to the deep.
Sea wolf to the deep.
Cold shuddered eyes freeze over
As they ready for the sleep.
Sea wolf to the deep.
Sea wolf to the deep.
Sea wolf to the deep.
Sea wolf to the deep.