Bait

You think the ship is weathering the storm?
 I think the vessel's been bombed too many times
 The ocean is huge and unforgiving
 The engineer is drunk in the captains cabin
 I'm building a raft cuz I forgot how to swim
 I'm into the current with no hopes of finding a new continent
 Who's gonna pick you up out of this place?
 No forgotten saints will hide your tears in the waves
 It's been seventy days since you've touched the ground
 Your rib cage is in operate, your stomach is a graveyard
 Your teeth are falling out, you'll never eat your words at this pace
 All hands on deck, legs quivering in place
 500 sharks swimming in a cult is your fate
 Blistering and broken, all hope has left your face
 You remember the last words of your crewmates
 Deep down you tell yourself they were capture by pirates
 They're in a better place, or better yet drowning in a puddle of Earth's sweat
 You let it calm your feet, feel a nibbling and it slips away
 Look under what's left of your lifeboat, so much food it was there all along
 You use yourself for bait before it slips away
 And when it rains upon your mouth and drink and you'll see another day
 You thought the ocean was a concrete jungle
 Through on your game face, in the face of nothing
 They went and threw a coffin to the wind
 But your life was not swallowed by the ocean
 The fish were caught, dried, you lasted for weeks
 No terrible storms tore threw your home
 And you wake up with a violent pecking in your back
 You lie still, blood rushes through your skull
 Grab it's feet, broke a wing and cracked its neck
 Dry it in the sun, soon you're gaining weight
 And on the ocean floor so much treasure, so many stolen lives
 So mane slave masters and stolen skulls in Trinidad reefs
 Might someday make a nice tourist visit
 The millionaires and musicians and so many young'ns from the Titanic
 Still waiting for dinner to be served, waiting to be brought up from the bottom
 The joke is over, my thoughts wander, I wish I knew a sea song
 I wish I had a knife, I wish I had some sun block
 But I'd rather be alone at sea, than on that boat with no food
 People turn cannibal, even crabs in a barrel are edible
 Out here I've learned to feet myself, how to entertain and destroy myself
 I'm floating in wine and it feels like brine
 The sharks are gone, the sun goes down by my mind stays on
 No drugs, no booze, no calls from mom
 When your days are unnumbered, you're immortal
 Nobody knows how long I was gone, cuz I never told anyone I found land
 How'd I survive? I threw myself to the wind and when I was hungry
 I used my soul for bait
 In deaths jaws, I laughed and kicked and screamed and sang
 Till my lungs were filled with the blood of men and women who never made it this far
 I used us all for bait, I used them all for bait
 You have no fate, no faith, only that of a stone in space