Bluebeard Lyrics

As your humble backseat cabin boy

I'll try to steer your ship throughout the blue

And we'll drop your tarnished banderole

But the barnacles still cling tight onto you

And as we drift past a distant lighthouse

I remember how I joined your crew

But the thunder of the rudder as it snaps

As it splinters like bamboo reminds me that

I can't stay on your sinking ship when there's lifeboats to spare

Sea shanty- I see schadenfreude simmering in the first mate

First-rate before this sea air

And on the decks I am reminded of everything you said

We'll wreck upon the rocks, whether I try or not this ship will end up dead

As your new first mate I'll carefully chart a course you will ignore

For somewhere colder

Blizzard storms we'll weather but I wish you wouldn't listen

To the parrot that you keep upon your shoulder

And sometimes I think that this voyage was doomed from the start

A cannon-armoured starboard was never enough to hold your heart

I can't stay on your sinking ship when there's lifeboats to spare

Ratty sails and rat tails, this blood vessel falls to disrepair

And on the decks I am reminded... of everything you said

We'll wreck upon the rocks, whether I try or not the whirlpools lie ahead

But for you

I really thought I'd fight

As I sit in this tower bathed in light

I heard you made it back to land

What a strange year under your command