Song Description
A requiem for a deceased band member. Gone but never forgotten.
| Song Length |
5:46 |
Genre |
Rock - General |
| Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
Similar Artists |
Bruce Springsteen |
| Language |
English |
| |
Lyrics
Verse 1:
The streets are lonely, so lonely I can hear my own footsteps fall.
There's no one out tonight, there's no one around that I can even call.
The moon is hiding, you know its hiding behind those clouds of gray.
There's a body in the river, yeah you know but things like that they just happen around here every day.
Verse 2:
Captain Crack died last week, after suffering for oh so long.
Cigarettes and cancer, you know they killed his lungs, and then he was gone.
But it don't matter, like the captain always said, it don't matter, because we're all dying anyway.
And bad things happen to good people, you know it happens around here just about every day.
Chorus:
Oh Captain Crack now why did you go?
You were the life of the party, don't you know?
You were always laughing, there was always a smile on your face,
And now there's no one here that can take your place.
Verse 3:
Now the time goes by faster, faster and faster, the older that you get.
Faster than a speeding bullet, so much faster than a saber jet.
Your friends fall off the carousel, you know they all fall off one by one.
Until there's no one left, really no one left, to remember the all the fun.
That fun that you had back in the day, back in the day, when you were still a kid
Do you remember all the fun you had, can you remember all those crazy things that you did?
But time has moved on, and time well it always takes its toll,
And now your friends are all gone, and now there's no one left to rock and roll.
Chorus:
Oh Captain Crack, why did you go?
You were the life of the party, don't you know?
You were always laughing, there was always a smile on your face,
And now there's no one here that can take your place.
Verse 4
Yeah I remember Captain Crack, we used to hang out you know down by the Tilt-A-Whirl.
You'd always find him under the boardwalk, where he used to make out with all those good-looking South Beach girls.
But those shooting gallery days, you know those shooting gallery days, they just won't come no more.
And now just getting it up, yeah, just getting it up, well that's become quite the chore.
Verse 5:
But there's a lonely cemetery, and there's a tombstone and it marks his grave.
It says: Captain Crack,its etched right in, it says Captain Crack, has caught his last wave.
It says his soul, his sweet sweet soul, has gone safely home
And it says his soul, you know its etched right in, it's etched right in, it says his soul will never more roam.
So you better get ready,you better get ready, for the life to come.
Because there's one last trip, there's one last trip, and it's a trip for everyone.
You just close your eyes, just close your eyes and you smile and let the night close in.
And when you open them up, when you open them up again, a new life will begin.
At least that's what the Captain once told me.