Do you remember the night in the strange hotel
Where nobody wanted to stay?
Feeling ripped off, cut up, broken and tired
At the end of another crazy day
I saw a man in a suit pull a girl at the bar
While she was giving the eye to his friend
I drank another drink and I began to think
I guess we're all gonna lose out in the end
Don't you know we're riding on a dark ship?
Heading out across the bay
Calling on the captain, trying to find a better way
Don't you know we're riding on a dark ship?
Heading out across the bay
To find a better way
Better way
Well, I remember the drive in the midday fog
Heading up the northern road
Just a-wondering who and why and where and how
We picked up this God-Almighty load
She said "I realize, oh, that I'm not the one
That you wanted from the very start"
I said "Well, that's alright, just let me show you tonight
How to open up your frightened, trembling heart"
Hey, don't you know we're riding on a dark ship?
Heading out across the bay
Calling on the captain, trying to find a better way
Don't you know we're riding on a dark ship?
Heading out across the bay
To find a better way
Better way
There are warriors, there are gambling men
Crazy dreamers in this life
And each and every one, every mother's son
Is just a-walking on the edge of the knife
Looking for reasons, searching for truth
A little comfort deep in the night
Just trying any way to make another day
Hoping something somewhere's gonna turn out right
Hey, 'cause don't you know we're riding on a dark ship?
Heading out across the bay
Calling on the captain, trying to find a better way
Don't you know we're riding on a dark ship?
Heading out across the bay
To find a better way
Better way
Better way
Better way
Don't you know we're riding on a dark ship?
Riding on a dark ship