Kings Upon The Main

by Thrice

From the album: The Alchemy Index

Track 12 of 24 on The Alchemy Index (2009).

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Lyrics for Kings Upon The Main

This lesson you'd do well not to forget Your life could be the one its wisdom saves At sea, when you're beleaguered and beset On every side by strife of wind and waves Despite the best of maps and bravest men For all their mighty names and massive forms There'll never be and there has never been A ship or fleet secure against the storms When kings upon the main have clung to pride And held themselves as masters of the sea I've held them down beneath the crushing tide Till they have learned that no one masters me But grace can still be found within the gale With fear and reverence, raise your ragged sail.

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More from The Alchemy Index

  1. Firebreather
  2. The Messenger
  3. Backdraft
  4. The Arsonist
  5. Burn The Fleet
  6. The Flame Deluge
  7. Digital Sea
  8. Open Water
  9. Lost Continent
  10. Night Diving
  11. The Whaler
  12. Kings Upon The Main
  13. Broken Lungs
  14. The Sky Is Falling
  15. A Song For Milly Michaelson
  16. Daedelus
  17. As The Crow Flies
  18. Silver Wings
  19. Moving Mountains
  20. Digging My Own Grave
  21. The Earth Isn't Humming
  22. The Lion And The Wolf
  23. Come All You Weary
  24. Child Of Dust