It's all there in the gospels
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the Magdalene girl
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Comes to pay her respects
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but her mind is awhirl
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When she finds the tomb empty
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the stone had been rolled
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Not a sign of a corpse in the
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dark and the cold
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When she reaches the door sees
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an unholy sight
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There's this solitary figure in
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a halo of light
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He just carries on floating past
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Calvary Hill
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In an almighty hurry aye but
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she might catch him still
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Tell me where are ye going
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Lord and why in such haste
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Now don't hinder me woman
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I've no time to waste
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For they're launching a boat on
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the morrow at noon
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And I have to be there before
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daybreak
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Oh I canna be missing the
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lads'll expect me
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Why else would the good Lord
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himself resurrect me
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For nothing will stop me
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I have to prevail
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Through the teeth of this
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tempest in the mouth of a gale
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May the angels protect me if all
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else should fail
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When the last ship sails
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Oh the roar of the chains and
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the cracking of timbers
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The noise at the end of the
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world in your ears
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As a mountain of steel makes its
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way to the sea
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And the last ship sails
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It's a strange kind of beauty
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It's cold and austere
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And whatever it was that ye've
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done to be here
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It's the sum of yr hopes yr
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despairs and yr fears
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When the last ship sails
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Well the first to arrive saw
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these signs in the east
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Like that strange moving finger
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at Balthazar's Feast
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Where they asked the advice of
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some wandering priest
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And the sad ghosts of men whom
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they'd thought long deceased
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And whatever got said they'd be
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counted at least
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When the last ship sails
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Oh the roar of the chains and
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the cracking of timbers
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The noise at the end of the
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world in your ears
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As a mountain of steel makes its
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way to the sea
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And the last ship sails
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And whatever you'd promised
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whatever you've done
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And whatever the station in life
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you've become
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In the name of the Father in
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the name of the Son
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And whatever the weave of this
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life that you've spun
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On the Earth or in Heaven or
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under the Sun
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When the last ship sails
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The Last Ship
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| Sting |
