Lady Of The Sea

On the eve of the last night in Baton Rouge

On my ship full of soldiers, battered and bruised

Well the flames grew high

And the bullets, they flew

And my brother cried out "Momma save me if you will"

We went down down down to the mouth of the sea

and she opened right up and she called out to me

For a spell my dear

listen hard, listen clear

this ain't no story of love songs or women or fear

There's no time to waste and I can't stay long

For the gods up above have a plan to cast off

All the burdens of man and the last of the sin

That has plagued all the land, made it rotten and grim

So my son, my son, salvation lay ahead

But the sun will surely rise when we're dead

So hallelujah, the lord's ?coming live?

Salvation is a bullet in my head

The wise man say don't mind if ?she had live?

The sun will surely rise when we're dead

So the lady of the sea, she spit me up and let me be

On conditions that I tell every man and every tree

Of the ?rife? was to come and the death that was to be

If we'd only pray to god spare us please spare us please

So I swam to the shore and I gathered my feet

And I grabbed the first child that my eyes did see

And I screamed at the boy "You must be strong, do not be weak

For the time approaches now, even strong men are meek

And all the wars that we fight, they are false and they aren't right

They compare not to what will be in our sight

For the rocks will cry out "We were right, we were right"

And the mountains will crash in the black of the night

And the stallions will ride, and the sky will split in two

And the beasts will devour the city of fools

So my son, my son, salvation lay ahead

But the sun will surely rise when you're dead

So hallelujah, the lord's ?coming live?

Salvation is a bullet in my head

The wise man say don't mind if ?she won't live?

The sun will surely rise when we're dead

So the boy took his fear to the head of the state

And the leaders of the towns they all gathered and prayed

They sang songs to the lord

"Make us right, just make us free"

And please bless us with weapons to kill all these things

That you hate so much

??Need you white ball is clean???

Give us money, give us power, give us everything

And we'll rise, rise, rise to the top of the sea

And we'll both cash out and we'll both come out clean

But the man in the towns could not understand

All the damage was done, there was nothing they could mend

So they took to their homes and they danced one last dance

With their wives on their arms as the children did ask

"Daddy, what is to come of this life that we live?"

"Baby close your pretty eyes, you've got too much love to give"

And I did all that I could to be spared of this ?fire?

Spread the word of the lord, gave up worldly desires

But the lady of the sea could not save me from me

And the mouth of the ocean swallowed everything

And the rocks cried out "We were right, we were right"

And the mountains did crash in the black of the night

And the stallions did ride, the sky split in two

And the beasts all devoured the cities of fools

So my brothers, my sisters, salvation lay ahead

But the sun will surely rise when we're dead

So hallelujah, the lord's ?coming live?

Salvation is a bullet in my head

The wise man say don't mind if ?she won't live?

The sun will surely rise when we're dead

The sun will surely rise when we're dead

The sun will surely rise when we're dead