Big Country - Last Ship Sails lyrics

The tower blocks Looks so beautiful In their own way The cityscape Is a fallen scene Of protest on the streets As a shadow trails On the concrete Separating you from me And you from me And you from me The last ship sails The last ship sails The last ship sails Tonight, tonight The last ship sails The last ship sails The last ship sails Tonight, tonight The sky scrapes the horizons Of smoke and industry As beneath my feet A river flows of continuity I was not the first I won’t be the last To come around Come around Come around here The last ship sails The last ship sails The last ship sails Tonight, tonight The last ship sails The last ship sails The last ship sails Tonight, tonight Whoa-oa Whoa-oa Whoa-oa Whoa-oa I was not the first I won’t be the last I was not the first I won’t be the last The last ship sails The last ship sails The last ship sails Tonight, tonight The last ship sails The last ship sails The last ship sails Tonight, tonight Whoa-oa Whoa-oa Whoa-oa Whoa-oa