On Board

I don't need no shore leave

'Cause feet fixed, I still sway to the sea's heave

Don't need to be wrung out or hung out to dry

I know how the lands lie

And if you came on board

I know you'd scan for the safety of a lighthouse blink

Any port in a storm, love

You promise you won't falter

But I know I've seen men sink

So you should get on board

With someone whose course is steadier than mine

You should get on board

With someone whose eyes are on the horizon

Not on the skies

On board with someone

Whose anchor is heavier than mine

You should get on board

'Cause I'm a flotsam jetsam mess

A drunken sailor in a dress

And fifty fathoms deep no less when my heart's at sea

And if you came on board

I know you'd tire of the tossing of my seabed

And forget what I said

Ships were not built to be safe, no, no, no

So you should get on board

With someone whose course is steadier than mine

You should get on board

With someone whose eyes are on the horizon

Not on the skies

On board with someone

Whose anchor is heavier than mine

You should get on board

Well, I've weathered worse storms

Than the one, the one you've been

Brewin' up in your mind

I've weathered worse storms

Lord knows, he knows I've been sailin'

For an awfully long time

Worse storms than all your fair-weather friends

And your shipmates combined

Tie up those lines

'Cause I shot the albatross

And I will swim across

The old man and the sea has nothin' on me

'Cause this love is steady

Truer than North

Now you take that on board

You take that on board

No, you should get on board

With someone whose course is steadier than mine

(I've weathered worse storms)

You should get on board

With someone whose eyes are on the horizon

Not on the skies

(I stare at stars

On board with someone

Whose anchor is heavier than mine

(I've sailed at sea)

You should get on board

(waiting for thee)

I'll be the figurehead

On your ship's bow

I'll be the last glimpse of a topsail

As we go down

I'll be waiting on the seabed

Repeating the words

(You said)

Don't forget, ships were not built to be safe

And in all my life's mistakes

You were not one

'Cause all I've ever done

All I've ever done

Is love you

To the bottom of the deep blue sea