Cheer Up, Love (Worse Things Happen At Sea) - Smokey Bastard

I saw a woman by the shore

Her feet half buried in the sand

As waves were lappin', sun was nappin'

She was cryin' for her man

And with a tear she dropped

And never stopped

And told of how this misery began

Each day for seven years

She’d walked the beach in case she saw

A heaving ship returning, fat with riches

Headed for the shore

With needless wealth

And the one man

That she’d been longin' for

No clue was given of

The crew of her lover’s cursed ship

A simple voyage of discovery

A three-year round-trip

Sullen hope had never yielded

So she knelt with quivering lip

So there the woman by the shore

Her knees half buried in the sand

As waves were lappin', sun was nappin'

She was searchin' for her man

With a final tear she stopped

And I began to understand.

This underwater tomb is keeping me from you

While my decaying body festers, my soul will never rest

And though you may cry yet

You must endeavor to forget me

So when you learn of my demise

Your soul can rise

The setting of the sun was fire

Her face a crimson red

Her bloodshot eyes staring toward the beheaded figurehead

Disfigured, dismembered

But remembered in his stead.

Now seven years of doubt

Have left her face by time betrayed

Unraveled dreams of a past life with her man becoming frayed

With a tear she dropped into the sea

As hope began to fade