Despite repeated warnings Our danger's up ahead The captain won't be listening To what's being said He feels that there's a good chance That we have been misled And so the captain's planning To steer ahead What can we do? What can we do? What can we do to stop this foolish plan going through? What can we do? What can we do? This man is bound to lose his ship and his crew Oh, oh, oh Despite repeated warnings From those who ought to know Well, he's got his own agenda And so he'll go What can we do? Those who shout the loudest What can we do? May not always be the smartest What can we do? But they have their proudest moments Right before they fall What can we do? The red sky in the morning What can we do? Doesn't ever seem to face him What can we do? But a sailor's warning signal Should concern us all How can we stop him? *** the keys and lock him up If we can do it We can save the day The engineer lives with his wife and daughter Janet But he misses them so Although he's working with the best crew on the planet They never want him to go He had a premonition He senses something's wrong And by his own admission He knew it all along The captain's crazy But he doesn't let them know it He'll take us with him If we don't do something soon to slow it How can we stop him? *** the keys and lock him up If we can do it We can save the day Hello Dix, the engineer cries The captain's gonna leave us when the temperature rises The leaflets gonna look, the engines gonna blow We're gonna be like down below, down below Yes we can do it, yeah we can do it now Yes we can do it, yeah we can do it now Oh yeah If life would work out the way you planned it That'd be so fine for the wife and Janet Sometimes you might have to battle through it But that's the way you learn how you got to do it Yes we can do it, yes we can do it Despite repeated warnings Our dangers up ahead Well the captain wasn't listening To what was said Before the show we lent it to the captain And we sold it to the dirt crowd But he laughs in our faces Says that we are mistaken So we gather around him Cause there was nothing wrong with slipping by him But I said it was worth it, he shouldn't listen Cause it was the will of the people It's the will of the people It's the will of the people