Verse 1:   Once we were kings   Now we're all shipwrecked   So hard these days   to hold our heads up high   Birds pass us by   Reciting their lines unkind   For all those civil savants   who drink fine wines      Chorus:   Dear Derelict   You'll find your stride   Across the ocean tide   Dear Derelict   We'll bide our time   Then fly      Verse 2:   Of all that was fair   nothing remains   All our conviction made fiction   and we're to blame   Curse out their names!   Merchants and pirates the same   We ain't no better   but we'll enjoy our fame      Chorus:   Dear Derelict   You'll find your stride   Across the ocean tide   Dear Derelict   We'll bide our time   Then fly      Till all your fears subside      Part 2:   I thought I really was insane   Turns out it wasn't always this way   Still we just cling to dreams of better days      We might've fallen from Your sight   I'll do my best to make it alright   Still we just cling to dreams of better days      And now I feel really alive   I know it can't always be night   Still we just cling to dreams of righteousness