Boat Journey by Valerie Vigoda Lyrics

[SHACKLETON, spoken]
Come, my beacon of hope. Point your violin toward the North Star and guide us to our destiny. Onward to hell!

[KAT/SHACKLETON]
Sail on

[SHACKLETON]
Men

[KAT/SHACKLETON]
Sail on
Sail on

[KAT]
The water's even worse than the snow

[SHACKLETON]
Every damned wave is drenching our boat

[KAT]
Fingers are too numb to row
[SHACKLETON]
But somehow we must stay afloat
Sailing and bailing and rowing

[KAT]
Rowing and bailing and sailing

[SHACKLETON]
So hard to know where we’re going

[KAT]
Body is weak, and systems failing
What keeps you from giving up?
What keeps you from giving up?

[SHACKLETON]
I am a full-fledged optimist

[KAT/SHACKLETON]
A true-blue, full-fledged optimist
Don't you let your heart sink down

[SHACKLETON]
I say

[KAT/SHACKLETON]
Why don't you wipe away that frown
[SHACKLETON]
I say

[KAT/SHACKLETON]
We will brook no dark despair
We have come this far, we’re almost there

[KAT, spoken]
We're not, are we?

[SHACKLETON, spoken]
No. But we must convince ourselves we are

[SHACKLETON]
Thirst-ridden, sick
With our lips dry and cracked
We both seem to be beyond help
But look, something green
In the black, raging sea
My god, it appears to be kelp!

[KAT, spoken]
Should I be excited about kelp?

[SHACKLETON, spoken]
For it means that land is not far! Bloody hell, a hurricane!
[KAT, spoken]
They have hurricanes in the Antarctic?

[KAT]
Through the shrieks of the storm
Nearly dashed on the rocks
As the gale tears the tops off the waves

[SHACKLETON]
And it pains me to say
But I'll tell you, I fear
We are destined for watery graves!

[KAT, spoken]
No!

[KAT]
Don't let your heart sink down, I say!
Why don't you wipe away that frown, I say!
I will brook no dark despair

[KAT/SHACKLETON]
We have come so far we're almost

[KAT, spoken]
There!