Navigating through scylla and charybdis
You might find these waters unforgiving.
Navigating through scylla and charybdis
You might find these waters a much welcome reprise.

I've tried to live by "in omnibus requiem quaesivi,
Et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro."
It's the quixotic longing for these turbulent waters
That finds me where I am,
Contented irrevocably.

But forgive this fool hardy sailor
For his mad flirtation with hubris.
He can only damn well hope to meet his next dawn.
Memento mori!!!

The memory of our seafarer
Will permeate the vastness below
Like the shimmering reverberations
Of strings pulled tight across the ocean floor
Memento mori!!!

"vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur,
Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur."

Soon our sailor will find
Whiskey won't help to tame
The convulsing waves.
The apportioners have
No hand in this
And the sea,
Memento mori!!!

"vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur,
Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur."

Navigating through scylla and charybdis
You feel disdainfully at home
Navigating through scylla and charybdis
At peace with the gale,
At peace with yourself.