Run On the Banks

When I came home from the Anzio shore

I got me a job at a Shiretown store

I married up quick, we had the one son

My limit was hit and my race was run

We raised him right and we put him through school

With a gentle embrace and an iron rule

Our world was shattered when we lost our son

To the business end of a gangster's gun

How do you go from the Bernhardt Line

To chasing anonymous ships in the night?

How do you live with a lingering ghost?

With a run on the banks

With a run on the banks

When they buried my boy of 22 years

I swore I'd do more than choke on my tears

So I hardened up my heart, I took up the oath

And looked for ways to avenge us both

Me and his mother, we never were the same

She left me one spring and I am to blame

I forgot about living, forgot about her

Forgot about love and the way things were

How do you go from the Bernhardt Line

To chasing anonymous ships in the night?

How do you live with a lingering ghost?

With a run on the banks

With a run on the banks

Sixteen guns, 25 kilos

A couple thousand rounds when we run her aground

The crew bailed out and headed for the hills

With a barrel of blow and a mountain of pills

No arrest in her majesty's waters

No victory for the mothers and fathers

Of the young and the damned

The guilty walk free to continue their trade on a cruel black sea

How do you go from the Bernhardt Line

To chasing anonymous ships in the night?

How do you live with a lingering ghost?

With a run on the banks

With a run on the banks