The Wake Of The Medusa Lyrics

The song The Wake Of The Medusa is performed by The Pogues in the album named Original Album Series:Hell's Ditch/If I Should Fall From Grace With God/Peace And Love/Red Roses For Me/Rum,Sodomy & The Lash [Box set, Import] in the year 2010 .



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 gla*ses 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




The Pogues - Original Album Series:Hell's Ditch/If I Should Fall From Grace With God/Peace And Love/Red Roses For Me/Rum,Sodomy & The Lash [Box set, Import]

Feb 2010

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


The Wake Of The Medusa