It's all there in the Gospels, a Magdalene girl comes to pay her respects
But her mind is a world when she finds the tomb empty
The stone had been rolled, not a sign of a corpse
In the dark and the cold, when she reaches the door
Sees an unholy sight, there's this solitary figure in a halo of light
He just carries on floating past Calvary Hill
In an almighty hurry, I bet you might catch him still
Tell me where are you going Lord and why in such haste
I don't hinder me woman, I've no time to waste
For that luncheon I bought on the morrow at noon
I don't hinder me woman, I've no time to waste
And I'll have to be there before daybreak
What can I be missing, the lads will expect me
Why else would the good Lord himself resurrect me
For nothing will stop me, I'll have to prevail
Through the teeth of this tempest, in the mouth of a gale
May the angels protect me, if all else should fail
And the last ship sail
O'er the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers
The noise at the end of the world in your ears
As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea
And the last ship sails
It's a strange kind of beauty, it's cold in us here
And whatever it was that you've done to be here
It's the sum of your hopes, your despairs and your fears
When the last ship sails
Well the first to arrive saw these signs in the east
Like that strange moving finger at Balthasar's feast
Where they asked the advice of someone who knew them all
A wandering priest
And the sad ghosts of men whom they'd thought long deceased
And whatever got said, they'd be counted at least
And the last ship sails
O'er the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers
The noise at the end of the world in your ears
As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea
And the last ship sails
Last ship sails
And whatever you promised
Whatever you've done
And whatever the station in life you've become
In the name of the Father
In the name of the Son
And whatever the weave of this life that you've spun
On the earth or in heaven or under the sun
When the last ship sails
