When My Ship Comes In Lyrics

Lyric discussion by PTG 

Cover art for When My Ship Comes In lyrics by Jill Sobule

Aside from being a kick-ass song in general (Bonus coolness: listen really, really carefully and you can hear Jill's 11-year-old nephews shouting "When my sh*t comes in" in the outro choruses), the meaning's quite clear and obvious: "Yeah, life sucks, but it'll get better eventually. Promise."