Featuring: Jimmy Nail
Jackie:
It’s a strange kind of beauty, it’s cold and austere
And whatever it was that you’ve done to be here
It’s the sum of your hopes, your despairs and your fears
When this last ship sails
Now everything’s ship shape, the drag chains we've checked
Send this shop down the slipway and it’s all hands on deck
Gideon & Jackie:
For nothing’ll stop us, we have to prevail
Through the teeth of this tempest
In the mouth of a gale
May the angels protect us
Company:
If all else should fail
When the last ship sails
Oh the roar of the chains (roar)
And the cracking of timbers
The noise at the end of the world in your ears
As a mountain of steel (mountain)
Makes its way to the sea and
The last ship sails
Meg (spoken):
Go Tom, go to your father!
Company:
And whatever you’d 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 no matter the weave of this life that you’ve spun
On the Earth or in Heaven or under the sun
When the last ship sails
When the last ship sails!
It’s a strange kind of beauty, it’s cold and austere
And whatever it was that you’ve done to be here
It’s the sum of your hopes, your despairs and your fears
When this last ship sails
Now everything’s ship shape, the drag chains we've checked
Send this shop down the slipway and it’s all hands on deck
Gideon & Jackie:
For nothing’ll stop us, we have to prevail
Through the teeth of this tempest
In the mouth of a gale
May the angels protect us
Company:
If all else should fail
When the last ship sails
Oh the roar of the chains (roar)
And the cracking of timbers
The noise at the end of the world in your ears
As a mountain of steel (mountain)
Makes its way to the sea and
The last ship sails
Meg (spoken):
Go Tom, go to your father!
Company:
And whatever you’d 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 no matter the weave of this life that you’ve spun
On the Earth or in Heaven or under the sun
When the last ship sails
When the last ship sails!
more tracks from the album
The Last Ship (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
- August Winds
- We’ve Got Now’t Else
- The Last Ship (Part One)
- When We Dance (Broadway Cast Version)
- So to Speak (Broadway Cast Version)
- It’s Not the Same Moon (Broadway Version)
- Underground River
- The Last Ship (Finale)
- Dead Man’s Boots (Broadway Version)
- Sail Away
- Ghost Story (Broadway Version)
- The Night the Pugilist Learned How to Dance
- What Say You Meg (Single Version)
- If You Ever See Me Talking to a Sailor
- What Say You Meg?
- Island of Souls (Broadway Version)
- All This Time (Broadway Version)
- Shipyard
- Show Some Respect (Broadway Version)
- Mrs. Dees’ Rant
From the album
Sting popular songs
- Shape of My Heart
- Englishman in New York
- Desert Rose
- Fields of Gold
- Fragile
- Russians
- It’s Probably Me
- If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
- Brand New Day
- Seven Days
- Mad About You
- A Thousand Years
- Soul Cake
- I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
- If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
- All This Time
- When We Dance
- If It’s Love
- The Last Ship
- Fortress Around Your Heart
- Children’s Crusade
- Moon Over Bourbon Street
- Synchronicity I
- Giacomo’s Blues