Interpret:

Mark Knopfler

Album:

Shangri-la

We're taking on water 
Diesel and stores 
Laying up awhile 
Before I'm back on board 
They're patching her up 
To go fishing again 
They're welding her rudder 
Scrubbing her keel 
Scars on her belly 
Need time to heal 
In the dock 
With the trawlermen 


I know all the people 
There's nobody new 
Soon we'll be leaving 
With the same old crew 
On the green water 
The tumbling sea 
They ain't running 
Like the good old days 
Time's just slipping 
Down the old slipways 
In the dock 
So dear to me 


Dark is the night 
I need a guiding light 
To keep me 
From foundering 
On the rocks 
My only prayer 
Is just to see you there 
At the end 
Of my wandering 
Back in the dock 


I could use a layoff 
Getting my strength back 
But there's a loan to pay off 
And a few skipjack 
So it's a turnaround 
Back in the southerly wind 
Pirates coming in 
To steal our gold 
You can count yourself lucky 
With a profit in the hold 
In the dock 
When we come in 


Dark is the night 
I need a guiding light 
To keep me 
From foundering 
On the rocks 
My only prayer 
Is just to see you there 
At the end 
Of my wandering 
Back in the dock