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The Last Shanty (Acoustic)

V5.5

[Verse 1] Oh, I washed ashore on a moonlit tide, With naught but the stars and the waves as my guide, This island’s my home, but my prison too, No sail on the sea, and no hope shining through. [Chorus] Oh, the sun sinks low, and the night draws near, The end’s in the wind, and I feel it here, I sing to the sea, and I sing to the sky, A castaway’s tune, and a lone goodbye. [Verse 2] The coconuts fell, but the water ran dry, I’ve scoured these sands for a ship passing by, Yet all that I’ve found is bones in the sand, A warning, a sign, of death close at hand. [Chorus] Oh, the sun sinks low, and the night draws near, The end’s in the wind, and I feel it here, I sing to the sea, and I sing to the sky, A castaway’s tune, and a lone goodbye. [Verse 3] The seabirds cry as they circle 'round, I’m bound to this shore, to this cursed ground, And though I may perish, alone and lost, My soul’s in the breeze, with the ocean tossed. [Chorus] Oh, the sun sinks low, and the night draws near, The end’s in the wind, and I feel it here, I sing to the sea, and I sing to the sky, A castaway’s tune, and a lone goodbye. [Outro] So raise one more song, as the stars align, For the ghosts of the lost and the sea’s cold spine, To the edge I go, to the waves I flee, A soul adrift, in eternity.