I'ts all there
in the gospels,
the Magdalene girl
Comes to pay
her respects,
but her mind is awhirl
When she finds
the tomb empty,
the stone
had been rolled,
Not a sign of a corpse
in the dark
and the cold
When she reaches
the door,
sees an unholy sight,
There's this
solitary figure
in a halo of light
He just carries on
floating past
Calvary Hill,
In an almighty hurry,
aye but she might
catch him still
Tell me where are
ye going Lord,
and why in such haste?
Now don't hinder me
woman,
I've no time to waste!
For they're launching
a boat
on the morrow at noon,
And I have to be
there before daybreak
Oh I canna be missing,
the lads'll expect me,
Why else would
the good Lord himself
resurrect me?
For nothing
will stop me,
I have to prevail,
Through the teeth of
this tempest,
in the mouth of a gale,
May the angels
protect me
if all else should fail,
When the last ship sails
Oh the roar
of the chains
and the cracking
of timbers,
The noise at the
end of the world
in your ears,
As a mountain
of steel makes
it's way to the sea,
And the last ship sails
It's a strange kind
of beauty,
It's cold and austere,
And whatever
it was that
ye've done to be here,
It's the sum
of yr hopes
r despairs
and yr fears,
When the last ship sails
Well the first
to arrive saw
these signs in the east,
Like that strange
moving finger
t Balthazars Feast,
Where they asked
the advice of some
wandering priest,
And the sad
ghosts of men
whom they'd thought
long deceased,
And whatever got said,
they'd be counted
at least,
When the last ship sails
Oh the roar
of the chains
and the cracking
of timbers,
The noise at the
end of the world
in your ears,
As a mountain
of steel
makes its way
to the sea,
And the last
ship sails
And whatever
youd promised,
whatever you've done,
And whatever
the station
in life you've become
In the name
of the Father,
in the name
of the Son,
And whatever
the weave of
this life that
you've spun,
On the Earth or
in Heaven or
under the Sun,
When the last ship sails