Gaelic Storm - Lover's Wreck lyrics

A hundred days at sea
A retch away from misery
Rummies and rats and tarry
Jacks my only family (break)
The island of salvation Is still
A scream a way
As the lungs of the night Blow out the
Light my heart kneels Down to pray

Lord why did you take her She
Meant so much to me
Now I’m a wretched soul on a
Privateer Drowning out at sea
I’m killing and I’m drinking My
Blue heart to black
But, I swear oh lord I’ll never sin
Again If you bring her back
Gypsy was a siren, Dripping with desire
Her moonless hair and skin so fair
As warm as frozen fire
She had the loyalty of a cat
Behind those pale green eyes
Through her cherry lips, the devil slipped
A thousand lies
A clan of rogues and vagabonds
Occupied her head
That thieving band took her pale white hand
And stole her from my bed
And like a ghost ship in the night
She drifted out once more
To land upon the sand
Of another lover’s shore

Lord why did you take her She
Meant so much to me
Now I’m a wretched soul on a
Privateer Drowning out at sea
I’m killing and I’m drinking My
Blue heart to black
But, I swear oh lord I’ll never sin
Again If you bring her back

In my sleeping mind she sings
A sad and lonely lullaby
When I wake there’s just the ache it
Will haunt me till I die
When those winds of vanity no
Longer blow her west
I pray they’ll guide her home

And put my heart to rest
Press gang filled this Man-o War To
Make the black mouthed cannon roar
Now all my trade is ball and blade
And blood forever more
And the sting of salt and spray
The ocean’s howl and squall
A stumbling wreck, I roam the deck
At the devil’s beck and call
At the devil’s beck and call

Lord why did you take her She
Meant so much to me
Now I’m a wretched soul on a
Privateer Drowning out at sea
I’m killing and I’m drinking My
Blue heart to black
But, I swear oh lord I’ll never sin
Again If you bring her back
I swear oh lord I’ll never sin
Again If you bring her back