Brave New World

Thunder clouds pack the sky At the break of dawn Our hearts and eyes heavy now The shoreline is gone In a coffin with sails we rocked upon the waves Sailing the high seas for a destiny yet unknown We came from far and wide Spoke in many different tongues Deserting the acres of our famined land Our meager possessions and our fate in our own hands We're sailing the high seas for a brave new world Sailing the high seas for a brave new A brave new world World World World Come with me my friends in this haunting hour Let's leave behind all their images of power Let's break the shackles of this stoic oppression Let's leave tonight for a brave new world Running through the night away in droves Crossing the borders crossing the big drink Sailing away to a faraway land Leaving tonight for a brave new world No longer the crown to rule over our lives No longer the clown to preach holy lies The church and the monarchy cannot keep us down The self-righteous bastards shall be burned to the ground The cross and the crown cannot keep us down The cross and the crown cannot trample us down Down Down Down Our bridges burned behind us The old world far behind At night we passed the bottle around and prayed for our lost friends As the hail winds did blow And the soaked us in grey death Stricken with scurvy and starved to the bone Food for the rats the sharks and the gulls Barely alive but for the promise of a brave new world World World World Doomed to the depths of hell no land yet in sight The nights they were cold as we huddled on deck The smell of the sea was like a pestilent grave Through ice and through sleet more of us died In the gully of death only the strong survived The valley of death only the strong Strong survive Come with me my friends in this haunting hour Let's leave behind all their images of power Let's break the shackles of this stoic oppression Let's leave tonight for a brave new world Running through the night away in droves Crossing the borders crossing the big drink Sailing away to a faraway land Leaving tonight for a brave new world Come with me my friends in this haunting hour Let's leave behind all their images of power Let's break the shackles of this stoic oppression Let's leave tonight for a brave new world Running through the night away in droves Crossing the borders crossing the big drink Sailing away to a faraway land Leaving tonight for a brave new world They stood like silhouettes against the reddening sky Waiving their flags with Fenian pride Some of us died with tears in our eyes Before we could put a foot on shore of our brave new World