The Night Watcher

Neil, Neil. Neil is the captain of the ship. He stands tall and proud. He will stand that way forever, tall and proud. Dressed in gold, his captains hat, his captains coat, he stands. Everybody loves Neil. Neil, Neil. Neil went down with the ship. He stands tall. Proud. He'll stand that way forever.

The seas were rough that day, the sun was shining, the sea was beautiful, rough, but beautiful. He always thought she was beautiful. The ships, side by side they sailed. The green sail blowing in the winds. "Ahoy," he calls, "Ahoy." The sea was beautiful that day. She was beautiful. That day. That day they say the ship went down.

"Ahoy, ahoy, rough weather up ahead." The captain peered from his window, the sun, the sea, the sea was beautiful that day they say. Of course they would keep forward, of course they would sail. These ships have been through everything together, the sea, they sail, side by side they sail, they could handle anything together. They will sail. They will move forward.

Proud, as proud a man could be Neil sailed on, sailed through the rough, beautiful sea soon to be much worse than ever expected. As the sun set the weather turned, as things do, down came the rain from the heavenly ski's above they sailed.

"Ahoy, man overboard! Man overboard! Ahoy."

Jimmy. Jimmy was a quite man. Jimmy was the first to go as men followed after one by one they fell. "Ahoy, ahoy," he hollered as the ships grudged on. Neil stood suddenly shaking, suddenly cold as the weather they sailed in, the winds, he watched, he watched his baby fall. The first of the two she fell; white sails no more. "Ahoy"

He watched his men go overboard. He watched then fall as he watched her fall before. Little by little she fell. He watched her, he watched her from his golden tower, he watched. He watched her aching, breaking, he watched her fall and he sailed on.

"Ahoy."

He stood frozen as he watched her demise. "Ahoy, ahoy," man over board. One by one they fell. He watched her drown, drowning at his push, he watched her fall as he battled on.

"Ahoy, ahoy."

Curtis was next. Curtis maned that boat everyday. The bow has never been so clean. He battled on. Neil was a proud man, dressed in gold, he glowed. Standing there he glowed as he watched his men one by one, as he watched her fall before. For not too long the green sails he sailed upon in his 12 by 8 cage were starting to break. He glowed.

"Ah, h, ah..."

There were no men left. No man left to call the winds, to call the sails. There was no man left to man the boat. There were no men left on the boat. No man left but one. The captain sailed on.

He sailed until he could not sail no longer. He sailed until he seen his love fall. He sailed until he watched her break, watch them break, watch the sail no more, no more. There were no men left. They sailed into the storm of life that no man could survive. No men survived they sailed.

Neil was a proud man. They say he went down with the ship that day. They say. They say. They say he watches over the sea. Dressed in gold he watches, he glows from his towers, he glows. He watches the winds blow, he watches the ships sails, he watches. They say he went down with the ship that day. They say he glows. From deep down inside the ocean he glows. He watches the sea. He glows as the men sail on.