The Wrath of Fate

The rain was blowing
 The lightning cracked
 All the windows smashed
 With sails scorched or barely there
 All our hopes were dashed
 With tethered lines and planking charred
 The ship stayed on its course
 Our fires lit, the clouds around,
 And we felt deep remorse
 But the crew stayed at its post
 And the Captain at his wheel!
 We all endured the wrath of fate
 But thought our fate was sealed
 A chain's as weak as its weakest link
 And rust did cut us through
 But strength in arms and hearts and heads
 Held 'cause our course was true
 A traitor lay within our midst and stirred unrest within
 From vanity or selfishness or any other sin
 With fires set and lanyards cut
 The traitor did jump ship
 And left the blazing falling corpse
 Of vessel in our grip
 But the crew stayed at its post
 And the Captain at his wheel!
 We all endured the wrath of fate
 But thought our fate was sealed
 A chain's as weak as its weakest link
 And rust did cut us through
 But strength in arms and hearts and heads
 Held 'cause our course was true
 And down we plunged, a fireball
 A skeletal frame of ash
 With airbags burst three thousand feet
 All our hopes were dashed
 Nothing could keep that ship aloft
 So, so down we crashed
 Five hundred fathoms down we fell
 Toward briny deep we splashed!
 But the crew stayed at its post
 And the Captain at his wheel!
 We all endured the wrath of fate
 But thought our fate was sealed
 A chain's as weak as its weakest link
 And rust did cut us through
 But strength in arms and hearts and heads
 Held 'cause our course was true
 The ocean hit like wall of stone
 The creak of timbers like banshee's moan
 But through the resolve of the Captain's crew
 Waves broke bow and then withdrew
 The mast was charred but still so strong
 So sails we did raise
 The windows gone above waterline
 The water quenched the blaze
 With lightning bolts quite far aloft
 And gentle wind below
 The Captain's crew and battered ship
 Sailed into sunset's glow
 But the crew stayed at its post
 And the Captain at his wheel!
 We all endured the wrath of fate
 But thought our fate was sealed
 A chain's as weak as its weakest link
 And rust did cut us through
 But strength in arms and hearts and heads
 Held 'cause our course was true
 But strength in arms and hearts and heads
 Held 'cause our course was true