Song Description

A lament performed live after the untimely death of one of the founding members of the band.

Lyrics

The streets are lonely
So lonely I can hear my own footsteps fall
No ones out tonight
There's no one around that I can even call
The moon is hiding
Its hiding behind the clouds of gray
There's a body in the river
But things like that happen around here everyday

Captain Crack died last week
After suffering for oh so long
Cigarettes and cancer
Killed his lungs and he was gone
But it don't matter
We're all dying anyway
And bad things happen to good people
They happen around here everyday

Oh Captain Crack,why did you go
You were the life of the party
don't you know
You were always laughing,a smile on your face
There's no one here who can take your place

Now the time goes by faster and faster
The older that you get
Faster than a speeding bullet
Faster than a saber jet
Your friends fall off the carousel
One by one
Until there's no one left
No one to remember all the fun

The fun that you had back in the day
When you were still a kid
Do you still remember the fun you had
The crazy things you did
But time has moved on
And time it always takes its toll
Now your friends are all gone
And there's no one left to rock and roll


Oh Captain Crack, why did you go
You were the life of the party,
don't you know
You were always laughing
A smile on your face, There's no one here,that can take your place

I remember Captain Crack
Down by the Tilt-A-Whirl
Under the boardwalk
Where he used to make out with those South Beach girls
Those shooting gallery days
They just won't come no more
Now just getting it up
just getting it up is quite the chore

And now there's a tombstone
a tombstone that 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, its etched right in,
it says his soul will never more roam.

So better get ready
get ready for the life to come
It's the final trip
the trip for everyone
You close your eyes
just close your eyes and let the night close in
And when you open them up, when you open them,
a new life will begin

At least that's what the Captain told me
Such a long long time ago
Down at that little surfside bar
The one the call the Ebb and the Flow.
It's just a few yards
A few yards from that Sand Lane strip
The folks down there all knew the Captain
They knew the Captain was hip.