On My Way

Neptune's the scary soldier

Who wants to show you his gun

A drum beat beyond my champagne

Sparkle kick and snare

From the edge of the world

Where the waltzes play

I'm on my way

The North Sea ferry shudders

All along its iron wall

Full of soldiers who mob the bar

Where I'm trying to sleep

They drink toasts to those

Who can't believe anymore

I'm on my way

My sunsets are all

One-sentence postcards

I can see you holding them

In your beautiful hands

As I hold my nose

To the heart I always betray

I'm on my way

Past the container port floodlights

And the mountains of souls

Past abandoned sailboats

Rotten sticks and stones

Past haunted old battleships

Waiting since the last World War

Past the lighthouse

The land's last shining hope

Sneaking towards the edge of the world

Hoping to live beyond our sins

And you can't feel the ship move

But you can see the earth spin

Into a darkness like a fist

That absorbs everything we could try

Maybe I'm finally about to see

What's right before my eyes

I'm on my way

I'm on my way

I'm on my way

You should be here instead of me

You could always love your enemy

I was born with no love for anything

But I can't turn away

I'm on my way

I'm on my way

I'm on my way