Sinking Ship

I am going down on this Sinking Ship, caused by evil pirates and dead weight

No, they never respected me, I was never The Captain, just a hapless first mate

I went down with this Sinking Ship, still forever devoted to my Captain

I was hoping to sail away to new and exciting places but now that will never happen

The ship had cracks in it's foundation for years but I always ignored the warning signs

When people would ask me if there was problem with the ship, I had to act like everything was fine

I continued to stay on this Sinking Ship, even though conditions were getting worse and worse

I was the last one to get off this Sinking Ship, when I really should have been the first

So many different elements damaged this once powerful vessel, it was not just one thing

We constantly tried to keep this Sinking Ship afloat but it was obvious it was sinking

As bad as this ship was, we continued to acquire more dead and unnneeded weight

It only continued to do more damage to this Sinking Ship as it started to disintegrate

I was never really happy on this Sinking Ship, being just the hapless first mate

When I agreed to board this doomed Sinking Ship, I already sealed my own fate

I continued to try to tread water as others laughed as I started to drown

There was no sugarcoating it, no matter what I did, this Sinking Ship was going down

Some of the others began escaping this Sinking Ship, in the small boat vessels below

But I stayed on this Sinking Ship with my Captain because a part of me didn't want to go

When it came time for me to escape this Sinking Ship, there just wasn't any small boats left

So I stayed on this Sinking Ship, accepting my doomed fate on the ships deck 

The Sinking Ship started to go down fast, sinking deep into the ocean below

God, I couldn't believe how frigid the water really was, it really was so cold

I still wanted to go down on this Sinking Ship with my Captain but in a boat below she too fled

I just stayed on the Sinking Ship as it continued to sink, knowing soon I would be dead

From Broken and Burned Bridges
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