Featuring: Rachel Unthank
Songwriter: Sting
Producer: Rob Mathes Sting
[Verse]
You promised me, my Jackie
On the day that we got married
You'd build a boat of dreams for me someday
A vague romantic notion
That we'd sail off to some ocean
But in my dreams we'd get there one fine day
He hasn't been the same since the yard closed down
Like all the other men in this broken town
He'd end up by the river as his thoughts turned black
I said, "Pull yourself together pet, and come home, Jack."
Whenever we had sorrows
We'd always say tomorrow
We'd catch that ship of dreams and sail away
What happened to my Jackie?
That big bold man I married?
It's hard to watch your fellow waste away
He sits and stares at nothing
That chair's an upright coffin
The cat's got his tongue and there's nothing I can say
He's never been the same since the yard got closed
But he's dressed every morning in his working clothes
Cuppa tea and a sandwich from his old rucksack
But it never should've happened to a man like Jack
[Outro]
If I came into money
It'd be all for you, me honey
And we'd build that ship of dreams and sail away
You promised me, my Jackie
On the day that we got married
You'd build a boat of dreams for me someday
A vague romantic notion
That we'd sail off to some ocean
But in my dreams we'd get there one fine day
He hasn't been the same since the yard closed down
Like all the other men in this broken town
He'd end up by the river as his thoughts turned black
I said, "Pull yourself together pet, and come home, Jack."
Whenever we had sorrows
We'd always say tomorrow
We'd catch that ship of dreams and sail away
What happened to my Jackie?
That big bold man I married?
It's hard to watch your fellow waste away
He sits and stares at nothing
That chair's an upright coffin
The cat's got his tongue and there's nothing I can say
He's never been the same since the yard got closed
But he's dressed every morning in his working clothes
Cuppa tea and a sandwich from his old rucksack
But it never should've happened to a man like Jack
[Outro]
If I came into money
It'd be all for you, me honey
And we'd build that ship of dreams and sail away
more tracks from the album
The Last Ship
- The Last Ship
- Peggy’s Song
- Jock the Singing Welder
- Show Some Respect
- Sky Hooks and Tartan Paint
- Hadaway
- It’s Not the Same Moon
- The Last Ship (Reprise)
- So to Speak
- I Love Her But She Loves Someone Else
- What Have We Got?
- Ballad of the Great Eastern
- Practical Arrangement
- Language of Birds
- And Yet
- Practical Arrangement (Full Original Duet)
From the album
- The Last Ship (2013)
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