We have spent rudderless nights

Waking up on a sail of regret

Sheets set up upon the bed and angled to the west

Dipped our fingers in the oh-ho the waters it was wet

Dampness cinching salty curls around

The napes of our necks

Punctured by the compass needless riled with certainty

The rescue boats are useless when none of us can agree

Hear the briny call the ocean's gusty

Gnashing of her teeth

Breakin' up the pretty cups and taking what she needs

There's a knocking on the hull you hear it

There's bones a-rattlin' under us

We set out without the smarts to fear it

With ignorance and gutless trust

Tell me once again if everything is as it seems

If things are getting better what's that crashing down

The street

The wind you say the storm that came remember our retreat

And darker days might come

And stay and signal our defeat

If drug up from the mock

I reel in what I hope will be

A trove of golden apples from the golden apple tree

Flush with fertile seeds I give them all away for free

For this our people should be known

Throughout all history

But from here we crouch and watch the plunder

Of the world we built with sweat and love

Why were you not built for wonder

Why will you never get enough

You say when you landed you could tell

That your conquest would go well

Though you wet yourself with fear

You were sure your god was near

The wind you say the storm that came

And darker days might come and stay