Bilgewater

It don't matter if the cold wind blows
 I'm gonna wind up working in the thick of it
 Sunshine through the rain and snow
 There's an oily brine bilge water baptism waiting below
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 That's just the waves slamming against the topsides' sound
 Don't let the ever rolling motion go and get you down
 Don't let it shake your steady thread cutting hand
 Keep stealing ribbons from the steel and giving hell
 To every halyard you can
 In spite of all the wherewithal
 To fight it all, I will face it all
 In spite of all the wherewithal
 To fight it all, I'll embrace it all
 When every day's like a war between the will to go on
 And a wish that the world would spiral into the sun
 Turn your head toward the storm that's surely coming along
 If the sun was always shining and our load always light
 We'd be shaking like a leaf with every God given night
 And we'd break under the weight of any pressure
 That was ever applied
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 Will you be ready when the straw boss calls?
 He's got an ever loving bone to pick with one and all
 Don't let his condescension get you down
 Just have the strength to know you're wrong
 And when you're right, the strength to stand your ground
 In spite of all the wherewithal
 To fight it all, I will face it all
 In spite of all the wherewithal
 To fight it all, I'll embrace it all
 (In spite of all) when every day (the wherewithal) is like a war
 (To fight it all) you find no strength (I will face it all) from your usual source
 (In spite of all) there's no peace (the wherewithal) there's no rest
 (To fight it all) your fortitude is feeling (I will face it all) put to the test
 (In spite of all) when every day is like a war
 (The wherewithal) between the will to go on
 (To fight it all) and a wish that the
 (I will face it all) world would spiral into the sun
 (In spite of all) turn your head toward the storm
 (The wherewithal) that's surely coming along
 If the sun was always shining and our load always light
 We'd be shaking like a leaf with every God given night
 And we'd break under the weight
 Of any pain that ever came in this life