Once I let a good friend drown
Sleeping on the job
as his ship went down
Loose lips make no sound
Broadcast from a digital lighthouse
in a bunker underground
When bureaucrats came on the scene
The waves and I disguised our
treachery with thin masks of serenity
But I know
I must have heard him scream
I guess I must have thought
of it as music in a dream
Zoned out on an empty quay
As the night approached
the evening painted
impressions on the sea
Until moonlight fell
on quiet graves
and a thousand silver b***erflies
danced fearless among the waves
Sleeping on the job
as his ship went down
Loose lips make no sound
Broadcast from a digital lighthouse
in a bunker underground
When bureaucrats came on the scene
The waves and I disguised our
treachery with thin masks of serenity
But I know
I must have heard him scream
I guess I must have thought
of it as music in a dream
Zoned out on an empty quay
As the night approached
the evening painted
impressions on the sea
Until moonlight fell
on quiet graves
and a thousand silver b***erflies
danced fearless among the waves