Hard Cargo Lyrics

Hard Cargo lyrics

I work the long haul on the dockside

 Building boats is what I know

 Each one takes another year of my life

 And then I watch them go

 

 There are no light around this harbour

 The tide has never been so low

 You teach them to walk and then you teach them

 to run

 And then you watch them go, you watch them go

 

 [Chorus]

 And it's a hard cargo to carry

 To see them slipping away

 And it's a hard cargo to carry

 To see them slipping away, slipping away

 

 Mary was the one who waited

 Even when the working was getting slow

 You think you know somebody inside out

 And then you watch them go, you watch them go

 

 [Repeat chorus]

 

 I believe that when you go

 You leave something behind

 I believe that out of sight

 Is never out of mind

 And then you watch them go, you watch them go...

 

 And it's a hard cargo to carry

 To see them slipping away...

 

 Slipping away, slipping away