The Boat On the Rocks

No hero me only in my dreams A pleasant night out Coast walk with my lady People mesmerised and all just looking Watching a boat drifting onto the rocks Somebody must be doing something Boat striking hitting the rocks Nobody doing anything Spineless bastards go on! Come on! Don’t leave it to me! A long clamber down to the rocks Wishing on the way down it will all go away Why me! No not me! Boat still there hull knocking against the rocks A man viewed inside collapsed drunk or ill Come on help! a fisherman looks at me blank Engine still running keeping the boat against the rocks A straddle over the gunnels I’m too old for all this shi*te! Aboard and there seen collapsed a large man With all my strength I can’t get him over the hull Either I get him out in the next few moments or I’m off A shout out in my loudest voice “F*ucking come on get up or we’re both going to f*uckin die!!” In time he responds and I push him over the side Like a sack of potatoes falling on the rocks below But he’s not dead and neither am I Let me go,go now please! Walking past the police now arrived they just stare A climb back to the promenade A beer in the bar there I cried My Lady thought I just went to look like the rest Near to death maybe a foolish risk of life For what!