My lady she's a mermaiden a true chimera Some say a myth from the depth of the sea Made it to the peer, awful yelling Deafening screaming and women crying I was there almost in time Oh, brothers in arms. Poor brothers of mine With a bottle of rum in my hand, wait on my friend While the wind proclaims the message of the sea Telling us that we'll never see them again And that my lady is going to take me down as well So, I kiss my siren hello and she takes me down, down home... This is why I sing no seafaring songs for my baby I don't want to drown This is why I sing no seafaring songs for my baby I don't want to drown, drown Down, here in the abyss, the place where she took me to with a kiss She promised me there'll be nothing that I would miss Oh, black smokers and glowing fish What they rule, they call the shots so cruel Now I'm falling in, I feel like a fool As I asked her to bring me back to land She laughed at me and drug me deeper Holding me by my pale dead hand