The Pogues - The Wake of the Medusa Lyrics

Lyrics The Wake of the Medusa - The Pogues



The guests are stood in silence
They stare and drink their wine
On the wall the canvas hangs
Frozen there in time
They marvel at the beauty
The horror and despair
At the wake of the Medusa
No one shed a tear
Sit my friends and listen
Put your glasses down
Sit my friends and listen
To the voices of the drowned
In the moonlight′s ghostly glow
I waken in a dream
Once more upon that raft I stand
Upon a raging sea
In my ears the moans and screams
Of the dying ring
Somewhere in the darkness
The siren softly sings
Out there in the waves she stands
And smiling there she calls
As the lightning cracks the sky
The wind begins to howl
The architects of our doom
Around their tables sit
And in their thrones of power
Condemn those they've cast adrift
Echoes down the city street
Their harpies laughter rings
Waiting for the curtain call
Oblivious in the wings
The casket is empty
Abandon ye all hope
They ran off with the money
And left us with the rope



Writer(s): Jem Finer


The Pogues - Original Album Series: The Pogues
Album Original Album Series: The Pogues
date of release
04-11-2011

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2 Gridlock
3 Maidrin Rua
4 The Battle of Brisbane
5 Dingle Regatta
6 Wild Cats Of Kilkenny
7 A Pistol For Paddy Garcia
8 Transmetropolitan
9 The Auld Triangle
10 Waxie's Dargle
11 Boys from the County Hell
12 Sea Shanty
13 Dark Streets of London
14 Streams of Whiskey
15 Poor Paddy
16 Greenland Whale Fisheries
17 Down In the Ground Where the Deadmen Go
18 Kitty
19 The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
20 The Old Main Drag
21 I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
22 A Pair Of Brown Eyes
23 Sally MacLennane
24 Dirty Old Town
25 Jesse James
26 Navigator
27 Billy's Bones
28 The Gentleman Soldier
29 The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
30 If I Should Fall from Grace With God
31 Turkish Song of the Damned
32 Bottle of Smoke
33 Fairytale of New York
34 Metropolis
35 Thousands Are Sailing
36 South Australia
37 Fiesta
38 Medley: the Recruiting Sergeant / the Rocky Road to Dublin / Galway Races
39 Streets of Sorrow / Birmingham Six
40 Lullaby of London
41 Sit Down By the Fire
42 The Broad Majestic Shannon
43 Worms
44 White City
45 Young Ned Of The Hill
46 Misty Morning, Albert Bridge
47 Cotton Fields
48 Blue Heaven
49 Down All The Days
50 USA
51 Lorelei
52 Fairytale of New York
53 Boat Train
54 Tombstone
55 Night Train To Lorca
56 London You're A Lady
57 The Sunnyside of the Street
58 Sayonara
59 The Ghost of a Smile
60 Hell's Ditch
61 Lorca's Novena
62 Summer In Siam
63 Rain Street
64 Rainbow Man
65 The Wake of the Medusa
66 House of the Gods
67 Five Green Queens and Jean
68 Six to Go




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