The Tiger Lillies - Dead Men's Ship lyrics

The mariner alone survives survives in living hell Each sailor there does lose their lives as he rings his bell There among the rotting corpses he is left to play The wreak of their rotting limbs the stench of their decay For seven days on that d**h ship the mariner does lie Haunted by the curse of each dead sailor's eye Until at last King Neptune mercy does him show The albatross falls from his neck at last the curse does go So upon a dead man's ship the rain comes tumbling down So the dead men come to life and start to move around These dead men do not speak each is a living corpse Yet the helmsman steers his ship a steady north King Neptune carries this ship dead sailors all him serve Now the mariner repents each action and each word So homeward the mariner floats on King Neptune's sea And when it is his time to die King Neptune sets him free Then he'll be amongst the waves a mermaid will he love Each day be like a summer's day stare at the skies above So upon a dead man's ship the rain comes tumbling down