Mark Knopfler - So Far From The Clyde

[00:39.93] They had a last supper [00:41.84] The day of the Beaching [00:45.23] She's a dead ship sailing [00:47.69] - Skeleton crew [00:51.26] The galley is empty [00:53.19] The stove pots are cooling [00:58.94] With what's left of the stew [01:05.20] Her time is approaching [01:07.28] The captain moves over [01:10.69] The hangman steps in [01:12.59] To do what he's paid for [01:16.41] With the wind down the tide [01:17.93] She goes proud ahead steaming [01:23.27] And he drives her hard into the shore [01:30.06] So far from the Clyde [01:38.17] Together we'd ride [01:43.71] We did ride [02:00.34] As if to a wave [02:02.03] From her bows to her rudder [02:06.17] Bravely she rises [02:07.62] To meet with the land [02:11.86] Under their feet [02:13.19] They all feel her keel shatter [02:18.74] A shallow see washes their hands [02:45.19] Later the captain [02:46.85] Shakes hands with the hangman [02:50.96] And climbs slowly down [02:52.81] To the oily wet ground [02:56.28] Goes bowed to the car [02:58.18] That has come here to take him [03:03.30] To the graveyard and back to the town [03:10.12] So far from the Clyde [03:18.21] Together we'd ride [03:23.93] We did ride [03:33.19] They pull out her cables [03:35.27] And hack off her hatches [03:38.93] Too poor to be wasteful [03:41.03] With pity or time [03:44.46] They swarm on her carcass [03:46.60] With torches and axes [03:51.51] Like a whale on the bloody shoreline [03:58.54] Stripped of her pillars [04:00.61] Her stays and her stantions [04:04.34] When there's only her bones [04:06.42] On the wet, poison land [04:10.28] Steel ropes will drag her with winches and engines [04:16.92] 'Til there's only a stain on the sand [04:23.93] So far from the Clyde [04:31.63] Together we'd ride [04:37.34] We did ride [04:42.02] So far from the Clyde [04:50.14] Together we'd ride [04:55.78] We did ride [04:58.20]