Burning Ship Lyrics

With wild wind whipping in sails full of fire

And flames on the deck, still growing higher

The crew floated close, staring with dismay

There on the bow stood the ship's stowaway

He'd been aboard since a port in Peru

Or maybe before that nobody knew

He'd only been caught ten minutes prior

When he'd kicked the lamp that started the fire

Which led to the crew abandoning ship

That's how the stowaway gave them the slip

Had the crew not jumped, they all would have died

Or so they thought, but their captive survived

He stood on the bow rising with the waves

High above the sailors' watery graves

The crew doomed by water, he doomed by fire

As blistering flames kept growing higher

No one would ever hear the sailors' claims

That the stowaway engulfed in red flames

Became the captain of the burning ship

With flaming eyes and the wheel in his grip

While the crew floated with lives all but done

The stowaway sailed off into the sun

Forever crossing the endless sea

On his burning ship, the INFINITY

A sailor who squints into the sunset

Will likely see the INFINITY yet

Sailing the line of the sea's horizon

Into the hole the sun each day dies in

It's where each sailor who's been lost at sea

Has also stared into infinity