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The Last Ship (Part Two) Lyrics - Artist : Jimmy Nail
[Father O'Brien:]
What do you say, Jackie? Are you with us?

[Jackie:]
Did you ever wake up from a nightmare so deep
Where you're drowning in seventeen fathoms of sleep
And you swim to the surface and you're grasping for breath
But you're back for a reason, for a bargain with death

Yes, it's one final contract, it's one final task
But he's asking a question no one's bothered to ask
For what are we men without a ship to complete
Unless we're snatching some hope from those jaws of defeat

So this is our moment, this is our grail
This is our Everest, our mountain to scale
Why, it's a battle we're fighting
We have to prevail
And we'll take back the shipyard or we'll

[Men:]
End up in jail

[Company:]
When the last ship sails

[Jackie:]
Oh, 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

[Company:]
Last ship sails

[Jackie:]
And whatever you'd promised, whatever you've done
And whatever the station in life you've become

[Jackie

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