Captain's Rum Lyrics

There was something about that night

So high

So high

A new state of mind driven far from here

Somewhere far away

The loneliness of night

Meant the death of the day

A dying rose

It's stem around my wrist

Like handcuffs to the ground

On layers of earth I missed

A broken head

A shanty full of lead

My last voyage

To find the promised land

I strummed the strings

And swam into the seas

Below what I knew of time

That passed intuition's lingering

And roses lined the coffin

Except these weren't dying

I'd grown sick and tired

Of a life full of trying

And the men of the ship

Handed me the Captain's Rum

It tasted like the blood

Of all the men he'd hung

And I awoke in the ships quarter

The cellar of the sea

And incarnations of my soul

Led the captain to betray us

The disloyal murderer

Us pawns in his game

To kill the blind king

To kill the light

Of day

My comrade dead

Tossed into the waves

The rose petals

Tossed into the waves