The sirens are gathered on the cliffs Their numbers growing hourly The navigator's set fire to the maps And soon to follow any sanity And the chaplain is content to dance The sea begins to boil Charybdis awakes Tie myself to the mast When you're hung on the rocks Do you stand by your captain Or run ashore with the natives? When you're hung on the rocks Do you tie a deadye to your neck Or do you pray for salvation? The denizens they take me under To claim me as their own As the light fades above me I realize that I'm never going home And the chaplain is content to dance The sea begins to boil Charybdis awakes Tie myself to the mast When you're hung on the rocks Do you stand by your captain Or run ashore with the natives? When you're hung on the rocks Do you tie a deadye to your neck Or do you pray for salvation? Still the chaplain is content to dance The sea begins to boil They crawl through the hull Untie me from the mast