Rest In Piece Lyrics

Rest In Piece lyrics

Integrity of construction 

The best money can buy 

Her size is
greater than any 

A Belfast shipyard's pride 

Signal flags spelled
out the word "Success" 

On her maneuvering trials 



Preservers and lifeboats were not in excess 

Unsinkable, no plans to
save lives 

Athinai reports icebergs and field ice 

At seven bells
ahead just five miles 

A black hulk against the night's darkness 

Disaster along starboard side 



Full speed astern were the orders


It would do them no good 

No apparent collision 

A rip deep
below the waterline 



Come at once, we have struck a berg 

Interference in transmission 

The newest, largest ship afloat 

Had two hours to live 

Lower all lifeboats, we have too few! 

Women and children first! 

Distress rockets fill the air 

Abandom
Ship!" 



Sinking faster, every light ablaze 

Machinery,
engines, crashing to the bow 

Arching vertical, stern points to the sky


The great ship fractured 

Everyone must die 



Watching
their families make it to safety 

Fifteen hundred went down 

The
orchestra played to the last moment 

An eerie almost unreal sound 

The calm and ice North Atlantic 

Titanic's burial ground