Shipping Lyrics

Verse 1
We built this place on shipping
On the shifting tides of the sea
On merchants’ wares from who knows where
On bones, and blood and fish and me
And shipping raised us in the world
We stood up proud and tall
It’s in the past and fading fast
In blood and bones and crumbling walls

Bridge
For every new building there’s a silence
Can you hear the skyline wants to speak? It says…

Chorus
Shipping can bring us home again
The tide’s our only real guarantee:
A flow, an ebb, a world wide web
An umbilical connection
To the sea, you and me?

Verse 2
Now I can’t hear the past
Above the roar of all the cars
And wrecking balls through bulldozed walls
And waves of change, both near and far
Oh, shipping’s sucked the life from us
In prime deliveries
In fulfilment centres far from sender
In blood and bones and DPD

Bridge
Now every demolition leaves a silence
But still the skyline wants to speak my friends it says…

Chorus
Shipping can bring us home again
The tide’s our only real guarantee:
A flow, an ebb, a world wide web
An umbilical connection
To the sea, you and me?

End