Ghost Ship official lyrics

[prem]

Originally, I had posted asking for anyone with the CD/LP to post the lyrics (I had purchased from Amazon). I now have the lyrics in hand, so I will post those as time allows.


GHOST SHIP
(Music and Lyrics: Matt Smith)

Messenger of ages
Carried on the wings of second birth
Unto the silent secrets of the earth
Justice generation
Anthem for the sense of purpose we lost
We rise above and count the cost
We are the ones the others left behind
Breath of life from the four winds
Watch these bones of death now march again

Pay the piper
Here we go
Got a ticket for a one-way journey
Slay the viper
Come follow, even if you’re ordinary
There’s a place for you here
Raise the anchor
All aboard as the Captain calls His misfits
This Ghost Ship
Sets off to shake the world
Let’s go!

Cast off for the journey
Join us as we sail the open seas
Unto the great adventure—follow Me
All the world’s unwanted
Come aboard and leave your darkness behind
Desperate to count, redeem the time
We are the ghosts awakened to the light
Forged and branded in His name
Ancient workmanship before ordained

Pay the piper
Here we go
Got a ticket for a one-way journey
(There’s revolution in the air)
Slay the viper
Come follow, even if you’re ordinary
There’s a place for you here
(Though you were dead, come alive)
Raise the anchor
All aboard as the Captain calls His misfits
This Ghost Ship
Sets off to shake the world

Solo: Val

Pay the piper
Here we go
Got a ticket for a one-way journey
(There’s revolution in the air)
Slay the viper
Come follow, even if you’re ordinary
There’s a place for you here
(Though you were dead, come alive)
Raise the anchor
All aboard as the Captain calls His misfits
This Ghost Ship
Sets off to shake the world
Let’s go!

 

[prem]

Paper Tiger

(Smith * Wood * Hinds)

Fake tears in the aisles
List, fear and denial
Glass cages and rivals
False threats of reprisal
One more rally cause and off we go
We've got 'em primed and ready to explode
The narcissist machinery, forging a self-made victims' new society
This world is growing more demented by the day
We let in fear along the way
Now for political advancement, we've co-opted pain
Beware snakes in the dark; don't set them free

One more life, for the glory to bear Your name
The honor to share that cup of suffering, we've burned it away
On we go, with our drama flags unfurled
While they die in chains around the world, and we dance on anyway

Selling false persecution, rage and de-evolution
Martyr complex we're feeding; paranoia we're breeding
Inventing problems for all to see
Caught in the cycle, self-fulfilling prophecy
We're living lives fit for a king
And most of us have never known real suffering
So join the pageant, fake the hurt, take up the cause
Lay in the paper tiger's jaws
Walk the stage now, take a bow and soak in the applause
Beware snakes in the dark; we set them free

One more life...

Solo: Jon / Solo: Val / Solo: both

Fear and paranoia bring a false sense of entitlement
Pretend we're persecuted, love the sound of our own voice
Media fearmongering is just a paper tiger
Because don't you know that misery is oftentimes a choice?
Caught up in our drama, we pretend that we have problems
While across the world our brothers are beheaded in the streets
Malcontents and dissonance uncover our indifference
Wolf's cry obsolete

One more life, for the glory to bear Your name
The honor to share that cup of shame, we've burned it away
One we go, with our drama flags unfurled
While they die in chains around the world, and we dance on anyway
Burn the tiger down today.

 

[prem]

The Wonder of It All

(Smith * Wood)

Paradoxes of all time, limitations of the mind
Darkly looking through a mirror, parallel distorted lines

All our knowledge and our plans, every circumstance of man
All the wisdom that we've gathered never reaches the divine

(Wake the wonder of it all)

Hear the fool's soliloquy: cannot grasp, it cannot be
Life unfiltered and unfocused, in a broken sanctuary

So we seek through every flaw, and we contemplate in awe
Ever trusting through the madness that one day we shall see

Some may rise, some may fall, wake the wonder of it all
Raising seasons and kings, hidden deep and secret things

Giving to receive, you'll be exalted through humility
True freedom found through slavery
Behold: what a mystery!
Last shall be the first, a living water for eternal thirst
Two natures and a virgin birth, all woven in this story's tapestry

Die to live and live to die, you lose it all to save your life
Become a fool to be as wise, and see when you close your eyes
Saints shall serve to lead
And you'll be strong when you are weakest
Finding joy through trials and grief
It all shall be told upon the other side

Some may rise, some may fall, wake the wonder of it all
Raising seasons and kings, hidden deep and secret things
All shall bow at Your throne, for Your ways are not our own
That You would hear my call, in Your holiness
This is the wonder of it all

Lead Break: Val * Solo: Val

Three in One and One in Three, my burden's light and yoke is easy
Grace sufficient for you to glory in infirmity
All of God and all of man incarnate, soul's redemption plan
The Lamb's blood spilled by human hands shall clean
And wash the stain away

Some may rise, some may fall, wake the wonder of it all
Raising seasons and kings, hidden deep and secret things
All shall bow at Your throne, for Your ways are not our own
That You would hear my call, in Your holiness
This is the wonder of it all

 

[rssllue]

Thanks for the work on this! The lyrics are always such an important thing to have.

 

[Batguy21784]

Thanks for doing this. My 47 year old eyes couldn't read the lyrics on the CD insert, so I scanned them, blew them up, and combined them into one pdf document. The quality's not awesome, but at least legible. Now sing along to your heart's content!

 

[rssllue]

You should have got the album. It has the lyrics much bigger on the inside cover! It is really cool.

 

[Aish!]

Big pictures & large lyrics - the only excuses for vinyl, in my opinion.

Speaking of lyrics, the rereleased Theocracy CD is very hard to read with poor contrast of font colour & background. Fortunately I still have the original, so it doesn't really matter for me.

Not that anybody was asking, but the tiniest lyrics I've come across are in the cassette of "Mystical Thieves" by Lightforce (who became Mortification). As a teenager I had to screw up my eyes. As a 44 year old I wouldn't bother trying!

 

[rssllue]

I love the vinyl.

But I love the digital too.

 

[SeaStorm]

Not that anybody was asking, but the tiniest lyrics I've come across are in the cassette of "Mystical Thieves" by Lightforce (who became Mortification). As a teenager I had to screw up my eyes. As a 44 year old I wouldn't bother trying!

That cassette was the best blind-purchase-based-on-cover-art that I made in high school! But I don't actually remember the lyrics sticking out as smaller than those in any of my other cassettes.