Underture

Each man has a soul 
That struggles to escape 
And in the shallows of his dreams 
We can often see its wake 

For we all have our secrets 
That we all keep deep inside 
Away from light, in darkest night 
Where it's always safe to hide 

Away from all that we should meet 
Less someone else should share 
That thing that hides inside our soul 
That we pray was never there 

And out upon that ocean 
A lifetime from the shore 
Miguel stood his night watch 
Recalling everything he saw 

For he was a deckhand 

Aboard the "maersk dubai" 
He had sailed her round the world 
From hamburg to sendai 

But this trip had been different 
More than any he had known 
For on board there was an evil 
And the evil had been shown 

For halfway through this voyage 
They had found two stowaways 
That the captain had thrown in the sea 
And left them to the waves 

And when he tried to close his eyes 

And pretend he did not know 
The evil did not go away 
But used the time to grow 

For later on that same trip 
They found a stowaway once again 
But the captain soon met this one too 
And brought him to the same cold end 

He wondered what that boy thought inside 
Before that final sleep 
When water was all that was around 
And his lungs had screamed breathe deep 

He wondered what went through his mind 
As he gasped for air 
And the last moment when he prayed for help 
To find nobody there 

He wondered to himself 
If he could have been the one 
To stand up at that moment 

And say this cannot be done 

To stand up to the captain 
And say this thing it cannot be 
But there is nothing closer to god on earth 
Than a captain on the sea 

And he was just a deckhand 
With no right to plead the case 
Of this stranger in their midst 
And so he kept his place 

And what is done is done 
And undone cannot be 
And so he pushed it from his mind 

And stared out across the sea