Where the ships come to die

As the workers climb to feel

A whole mountain of steel

one worker watches as other dismantles

a navy ship in a ship breaking yard

This is a place where the ships come to die

ho o fear no more oh brother 
I am here to pry, to cry

The cranes, the trolleys, the welding jet and the wrecking balls

lurking to devour its prey like a law passed by the parliament

Inch by inch and foot by foot it melts

like the skin of a self-incinerating Tibetan monk

This is a place where the ships come to die

ho o fear no more oh brother 
I am here to pry, to cry

The ships abrade away slowly and slowly

As the migratory birds realizes their perching place shrinking

It’s a way of living for the thousands

Hazardous but then their only call or they fall

This is a place where the ships come to die

ho o fear no more oh brother 
I am here to pry, to cry

The fumes from the metal cutter giving him cancer

The radioactive waste, the polluted environment

the toxic derbies, the dying planet and the molesting corporations

He care any less for them or the breathing masks

He just wants some money to subsist

Like a slave who only want to live another day

Freedom is a pipe dream, only for the rich

Either you work or you die in a famine

This is a place where the ships come to die

ho o fear no more oh brother 
I am here to pry, to cry

The cremation continues in the night

When the flames and the sparks are flying

in the sky like a swarm of fireflies executing a ritual

the queue of lights illuminating on a distant port

is the only hope for the industrious souls

This is a place where the ships come to die

ho o fear no more oh brother 
I am here to pry, to cry

On a turbulent dawn, the work don’t halt

When the wind and waves are teeming in

A storm is coming in, mumbling, grumbling,

The half razed ship that looks like wreckage

But the people are bigger threat than the cyclone

Like an old war veteran waiting for

a bullet than dying of Alzheimer’s, the pain, the agony

hoooo howaaa This is a place where the ships come to die

ho o fear no more oh brother 
I am here to pry, to cry