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Dead Men Tell No Tales Lyrics
I’ll be the salt that resides, from the water that drains from your eyes.
The sting that burns your open wounds.
I’ll flood the ground.
I swear on your grave I’ll bury this town,
But not for me, no never for me.
We have tested the buoyancy of loyalty.
You left our lungs for canteens.
You left our ankles for anchors.
We thought your arms were tied behind your back,
But elastic bands tied your hands.
You swim with reckless abandon.
Abandon ship.
Mayday, Mayday
Swim towards shore.
Our captain is overboard.
He punctured wholes in the floorboards,
to flood the bow just in time to bow out.
Abandon ship.
Swim towards shore.
He’s overboard and over-bored
In the wake we man our own driftwood orphanage.
A second hand sailor’s fleet, to flee.
Left in the wake we man our own driftwood orphanage.
Our captain is overboard and over-bored.
Captain’s calling, “ Abandon ship!”
Abandon ship.
Mayday, Mayday
Swim towards shore.
Our captain is overboard.
He punctured holes in the floorboards,
to flood the bow just in time to bow out.
Abandon ship.
Swim towards shore.
He’s overboard and over-bored
And there’s nothing you can do,
When the water ruins the maps we drew.
Mayday, mayday, mayday.
Save us from this drowning vessel.
I’ll be the salt that resides, from the water that drains from your eyes.
The sting that burns your open wounds.
I’ll flood the ground.
I swear on your grave I’ll bury this town,
But not for me, no never for me.
We have tested the buoyancy of loyalty.
You left our lungs for canteens.
You left our ankles for anchors.
We thought your arms were tied behind your back,
But elastic bands tied your hands.
You swim with reckless abandon.
And there’s nothing you can do,
When the water ruins the maps we drew.
Mayday, mayday, mayday.
Save us from this drowning vessel.
The sting that burns your open wounds.
I’ll flood the ground.
I swear on your grave I’ll bury this town,
But not for me, no never for me.
You left our lungs for canteens.
You left our ankles for anchors.
We thought your arms were tied behind your back,
But elastic bands tied your hands.
You swim with reckless abandon.
Mayday, Mayday
Swim towards shore.
Our captain is overboard.
He punctured wholes in the floorboards,
to flood the bow just in time to bow out.
Abandon ship.
Swim towards shore.
He’s overboard and over-bored
A second hand sailor’s fleet, to flee.
Left in the wake we man our own driftwood orphanage.
Our captain is overboard and over-bored.
Captain’s calling, “ Abandon ship!”
Mayday, Mayday
Swim towards shore.
Our captain is overboard.
He punctured holes in the floorboards,
to flood the bow just in time to bow out.
Abandon ship.
Swim towards shore.
He’s overboard and over-bored
When the water ruins the maps we drew.
Mayday, mayday, mayday.
Save us from this drowning vessel.
The sting that burns your open wounds.
I’ll flood the ground.
I swear on your grave I’ll bury this town,
But not for me, no never for me.
You left our lungs for canteens.
You left our ankles for anchors.
We thought your arms were tied behind your back,
But elastic bands tied your hands.
You swim with reckless abandon.
When the water ruins the maps we drew.
Mayday, mayday, mayday.
Save us from this drowning vessel.
Song Info
Submitted by
cursethemartyr On Apr 15, 2004
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this is an awesome song...it needs more comments.
i'd say, "i heard it was about ben leaving the band."
but i don't want to spread rumors. it does make sense, though. "tested the bouyancy of loyalty" and then their lungs are filled with water, and their ankles are at the ocean floor...so the loyalty didn't float. the wreckage parts...
It IS about Ben leaving the band. He even wrote a song with The Lido Venice in response to this one.
the response song is "salvo brio" please listen to ben's other bands including christians + lions support local music! congratulations to treos getting signed to triple crown.
the response song is "salvo brio" please listen to ben's other bands including christians + lions support local music! congratulations to treos getting signed to triple crown.
Of course it's about Ben leaving. Not only did he write a song in response, but the signs are obvious.
"We thought your arms were tied behind your back, But elastic bands tied your hands." -They though they could trust him and that everything was copasetic. But he abandoned them.
"Left in the wake we man our own driftwood orphanage." -Orphanage meaning the band. Maybe they referred to the group as that because they were 'leaderless' (the frontman of the band left).
"He punctured holes in the floorboards, to flood the bow just in time to bow out." -Maybe he messed things up and left without making an effort to help resolving some of the issues.
"Abandon ship. Mayday, Mayday Swim towards shore. Our captain is overboard." -They were in distress and not sure what to do.
That's just my take on the song, I could be (most likely) completey wrong.
Completely, even.
where can i find this song... the response song that is.
if you buy there ep with three songs and the transistions listen to it on your comp. ands a secret website comes up and gives you meanings to all the songs adn lyrics for all there songs
melty0faceoff: story about treos. melty0faceoff: i know this because my friends are friends with them and they're from around here... melty0faceoff: they've been aorund for years melty0faceoff: they had another singer, but he was liek 16 and wanted to finish school, so they got pissed off at him and wrote "dead man tell no tales" they deny the fact that they were ever a band before they wrote between the heart and the synapse. blah blah blah, long story short, he formed a new band called the lido venice and they're amazing. and now he's in like 50,000 other bands. melty0faceoff: so next time we're both on, i'll send you old treos and lido venice songs. melty0faceoff: it's funny because one of the lido venice songs is about treos melty0faceoff: lyrics: melty0faceoff: WHEN YOU WERE ON THE RECEIVING END OF SIRENS. I HOPE YOU WERE DEAFENED BY MY SPLASH, BECAUSE IF THEIR VOICES HIT YOUR EARS THIS TIME, AFTER MY BURIAL AT SEA, THEY'LL LURE YOU TO THE ROCKS FOR SURE. NO ONE WILL MAKE IT OUT ALIVE.
TonyJ just informed me!