Despite Repeated Warnings lyrics

Despite repeated warnings of dangers up ahead

The captain won’t be listening to what’s been said

He feels that there’s a good chance that we have been misled

And so the captain’s planning to steam ahead

What can we do, what can we do

What can we do to stop this foolish plan going through

What can we do, what can we do

This man is bound to lose his ship and his crew

Despite repeated warnings

from those who ought to know

He’s got his own agenda and so he’ll go

Those who shout the loudest

may not always be the smartest

But they have their proudest moments right before they fall

Red sky in the morning doesn’t ever seem to phase him

But a sailor’s warning signal should concern us all

How can we stop him

Grab the keys and lock him up

If we can do it we can save the day

The engineer lives with his wife and daughter Janet

But he misses them so

Although he’s working with the best crew on the planet

They never want him to go

He had a premonition

He senses something’s wrong

And by his own admission, he knew it all along

The captain’s crazy but he doesn’t let them know it

He’ll take us with him

if we don’t do something soon to slow it

How can we stop him

Grab the keys and lock him up

If we can do it we can save the day

Below decks the engineer cries:

The captain’s gonna leave us when the temperatures rise

The needle’s going up

The engine’s gonna blow and we’re gonna be left down below

Down below

Yes we can do it

Yes we can do it now

If life would work out the way you plan it

That’d be so fine for the wife and Janet

Sometimes you might have to battle through it

But that’s the way you learn how you’ve got to do it

Yes we can do it whoa, whoa

Despite repeated warnings of dangers up ahead

Well the captain wasn’t listening to what was said

So we went to the captain

and we told him to turn around

But he laughs in our faces

Says that we are mistaken

So we gather around him

Now the ropes that have bound him prove that he should have listened

To the will of the people

It’s the will of the people

It’s the will of the people