Testo di Sailors

And the sailors, they sing sad songs About the sea that eats them whole And the sailors they sing sad songs Food for fishes shoals And the wind it blows inland And the death you can smell Smashed on rocks and smashed on boulders Smashed in living hell And their loved ones wait for hours Await the fate of the cruel sea And if loved ones don't return There's no security Just the work-house when they grow old To lay their weary heads And the sound of the sea singing Until they are dead And the sea that bears its harvest It exacts a heavy toll Mothers, fathers, brothers, uncles With no corpses to behold Sailing out into the darkness Every day of the year Sailing out into the darkness With a prayer, and with fear And with fear With a prayer, and with fear And with fear