Mark Erelli - Evening's Curtain lyrics

rate me

It's written of in papers, books and magazines

For centuries adventurers set sail

In schooners, clippers, sloops and brigs and barquentines

O'er the deep blue ocean to prevail

Believing their dominion o'er the great salt sea

They'd snare the fish and smite the mighty whale

But for every man who lived to boast his victory

A score or more were thwarted by the gale

CHORUS:

As evenings curtain falls upon me like a shroud

I'm thinking of their cold eternal sleep

Beneath the waves far too many souls to count

Lost out in the darkness on the deep

There always will be men who sail the ocean blue

But the romance is a thing of history

In these hard times a man just does what he has to

Providing for his wife and family

Not long ago just off the coast of Provincetown

They found a radio beacon bobbing in a field of debris

Three days they did search but they never found

The crew who worked aboard the Candy B