Part Three: Ship's a'Going Down letra

Why not live?
The catbird shrilled!
And give a guy a chance!
For soon the Moon will sing a tune and I'll be left to dance
Well, strangers have left on longer trains before
Yes, shake and shout and cause a spout to be a mockery!
Exist inside a lemon drop and cause no word to be
If after all this oleo a speck of dust exists
We'll set aside a common tide 'twixt friend and who he's kissed

He thought the end was overdue, but day broke him instead
And consequently what he read was never what he said
And don't you never
Said the ever enigmatic foe
Lose your cool, or after school
They'll find me home in bed

What hoe you rake you fake a taking and a mating moo
Confuse to use and quick to break are simple rules to you
Why send a curly head to bed and know her secrets too?

Glue it down you dripping clown, and be not busy, too
If a needy, if a seedy lets him come on through
Keys are not thrust open spores, and neither is a broken store!
There are clothes that haven't been worn
Feet that haven't been shorn
There's causes that haven't been given a principle
Need I say more?

The soft spoken edge was a close fit
With the warped open cracks so many

The quick brain drained the main
And the ships a goin' down me mates
The ship she's a goin' down
The ship' she's a goin' down
The ship' she's a goin' down
The ship' she's a goin' down
Down down down down down
Down down down down down
The quick brain drained the main
And the ships she's a goin' down, boys
The ship she's a goin' down
The ship' she's a goin' down
The ship' she's a goin' down
The ship' she's a goin' down
Down down down down down
Down down down down down
The quick brain drained the main
And the ships she's a goin' down, boys
The ship she's a goin' down
The ships she's goin' down me mates
The ship' she's a goin' down
The ship' she's a goin' down
Down down down down down
Down down down down down
The quick brain drained the main
And the ships she's a goin' down, boys
The ship she's a goin' down
The ships she's goin' down me mates
The ship' she's a goin' down
The ship' she's a goin' down
Down down down down down
Down down down down down
-Ship' she's a goin' down
The ship' she's a goin' down
The ship' she's a goin' down
The quick brain drained the main
And the ships she's a goin' down, boys
The ship she's a goin' down
Down down down down down
Down down down down down

The Residents - Letras

• Act of Being Polite
• Amber
• Bach Is Dead
• Bathsheba Bathes
• Betty's Body
• Birds in the Trees
• Birthday Boy
• Blue Rosebuds
• Boo Who
• Bossy
• Bouncing Benny
• Bridegroom of Blood
• Burn Baby Burn
• Cain and Abel
• Caring
• Confused
• Constantinople
• Consuelo's departure
• Deadwood
• Death In Barstow
• Demons Dance Alone
• Die In Terror
• Dimples And Toes
• Easter Woman
• Elvis And His Boss
• End Of Home
• Epilogue
• Everyone Comes To The Freak Show
• Fine Fat Lines
• Fingertips
• Fire Fall
• Flight of the Bumble Roach
• From The Plains To Mexico
• Ghost Child
• Ginger's Lament
• Give it to Someone Else
• God's Magic Finger
• Godsong
• Gone Again
• Guylum Bardot
• Handful of Desire
• Hanging By His Hair
• Hard And Tenderly
• Harry The Head
• Hello Skinny
• Here Come The Bums
• Home Age Conversation
• Honey Bear
• How to Get a Head
• I Gave Myself To You
• I Hate Heaven
• Infant Tango
• Jambalaya
• Jello Jack The Boneless Boy
• Judas Saves
• Just For You
• Kick A Picnic
• Kill Him
• Kill The Great Raven
• Kiss Of Flesh
• Laughing Song
• Less Not More
• Life Would Be Wonderful
• Lillie
• Living In Vain
• Lizard Lady
• Loneliness
• Loss Of a Loved One
• Love Is...
• Love Leaks Out
• Main Titles
• Make Me Moo
• Margaret Freeman
• Melancholy Clumps
• Melon Collie Lassie
• Mickey Macaroni
• Mickey The Mumbling Midget
• Moisture
• Monkey & Bunny
• Mr. Misery
• My Brother Paul
• My Second Wife
• My Work is So Behind
• N-er-gee (Crisis Blues)
• Needines
• Nice Old Man
• Nobody Laughs When They Leave
• Pain And Pleasure
• Part Four: Never Known Questions
• Part One: Edweena
• Part Three: Ship's a'Going Down
• Part Two: The Making Of a Soul
• Perfect Love
• Picnic Boy
• Picnic In The Jungle
• Posession
• Red Rider
• Santa Dog
• Seasoned Greetings
• Secrets
• Sinister Exaggerator
• Six Things To A Cycle
• Skratz
• Spilling the Seed
• Spotted Pinto Bean
• Suburban Bathers
• Tent Peg in the Temple
• The Aging Musician
• The Ascetic
• The Beekeeper's Daughter
• The Car Thief
• The Confused Transsexual
• The Dying Oilman
• The Electrocutioner
• The Golden Goat
• The Man In The Dark Sedan
• The Nameless Souls
• The Old Soldier
• The Old Woman
• The Service
• The Seven Ugly Cows
• The Shoe Salesman
• The Simple Song
• The Spot
• The Talk of Creatures
• The Thing About Them
• The Vultures Bombay
• The Weatherman
• Their Early Years
• They Are the Meat
• Tongue
• Tongue Story (part II)
• Tongue Story (part III)
• Tongue Story (part IV)
• Tourniquet Of Roses
• Tragic Bells
• Troubled Man
• Ups and Downs
• Wanda The Worm Woman
• Wanda Wanda Wanda
• We Stole This Riff
• Wolverines
• Would We Be Alive?
• You Yesyesyes