Overboard Lyrics

Gentlemen, listen right now as I speak

I fear that this ship of ours has sprung a leak

The sea, she is coming to take us an inch at a time

It's roaring in faster than buckets can fill

I fear it's a matter of minutes until

From belly to mast we'll be deeper than any can climb

And all of this now with the shore plain in sight

We might make it yet if the load could be light

But what sort of life do you think we'll afford

If we have to throw all that we have overboard?

The gold in our coffers is weighing us down

We shan't spend a cent if we're certain to drown

And none can come with you at all in the life after this

So gather your treasures and cast them away

And if you are swift then I hope and I pray

We won't soon be up to our eyes in a watery kiss

And if one among you at all hesitates

Remind them this is for the lives of their mates

But what sort of life do you think we'll afford

If we have to throw all that we have overboard?

See now the spoils in motion

Straight to the heart of the ocean

Down in the drink, every glimmering piece

You watch as they sink while the waters increase

Just slow enough to renew life's intolerable lease

At last we arrive clinging onto the sails

And leap to the dock when it finally fails

The ship where we spent seven months as we circled the globe

The price that we paid sure is awfully steep

Behind us the trail that shines in the deep

Could only be seen by an angler's most luminant lobe

We came as we left now with only our lives

The glory is gone but the story survives

So what sort of life do you think we'll afford

Now we've had to throw all that we have overboard?

Yes what sort of life do you think we'll afford

Now we've had to throw all that we have overboard?