It don't matter if the cold wind blows

I'm gonna wind up working in the thick of it

Sunshine through the rain and snow

There's an oily brine bilge water baptism waiting below

That's just the waves slamming against the topsides' sound

Don't let the ever rolling motion go and get you down

Don't let it shake your steady thread cutting hand

Keep stealing ribbons from the steel and giving hell

To every halyard you can

In spite of all the wherewithal

To fight it all, I will face it all

In spite of all the wherewithal

To fight it all, I'll embrace it all

When every day's like a war between the will to go on

And a wish that the world would spiral into the sun

Turn your head toward the storm that's surely coming along

If the sun was always shining and our load always light

We'd be shaking like a leaf with every God given night

And we'd break under the weight of any pressure

That was ever applied

Will you be ready when the straw boss calls?

He's got an ever loving bone to pick with one and all

Don't let his condescension get you down

Just have the strength to know you're wrong

And when you're right, the strength to stand your ground

In spite of all the wherewithal

To fight it all, I will face it all

In spite of all the wherewithal

To fight it all, I'll embrace it all

(In spite of all) when every day (the wherewithal) is like a war

(To fight it all) you find no strength (I will face it all) from your usual source

(In spite of all) there's no peace (the wherewithal) there's no rest

(To fight it all) your fortitude is feeling (I will face it all) put to the test

(In spite of all) when every day is like a war

(The wherewithal) between the will to go on

(To fight it all) and a wish that the

(I will face it all) world would spiral into the sun

(In spite of all) turn your head toward the storm

(The wherewithal) that's surely coming along

If the sun was always shining and our load always light

We'd be shaking like a leaf with every God given night

And we'd break under the weight

Of any pain that ever came in this life