Rain to Rainbows

When the compass spins in circles
When the charts are damp and torn
When you're searching for your breathing
Like a baby being born
You can follow intuition
But be careful where it leads
There are rocks beneath the surface
In the deepest of the seas

When your deck's awash with whiskey
But there's salt inside your glass
And when the apples bruised and rotten
Sit in barrels by the mast
When you hear the jangling shackles
Of the slaves that were not freed
Like Othello draw your sword
On the battles of the sea

When you see no ships
Only hardships
May the wind dry the tears from your eyes
May the sun turn rain to rainbows
In your sky

When Neptune tries to drown you
And you struggle like a man
Through the hurricanes and shipwrecks
To the safety of the sand
Find a captain in the island
Take the map upon his knees
And mark a cross in blood
On your empire of the sea

When you see no ships
Only hardships
May the wind dry the tears from your eyes
May the sun turn rain to rainbows
In your sky

Ask the albatross for fortune
Ask the night to carry stars
And whistle for a reaching breeze
In the silence of the calm
Be first my son and then my father
As the universe decrees
On the passage of your lifetime
Through the chaos of the seas

When you see no ships
Only hardships
May the wind dry the tears from your eyes
May the sun turn rain to rainbows
In your sky
May the sun turn rain to rainbows
In your sky