Milow - Herald Of Free Enterprise Lyrics
This is the legend of eight sisters, Herald was the famous oneIt happened twenty years ago although the sea was calmIt was 1987 and winter nearly goneOn that Friday running late with rolling off and rolling onTrucks and cars were sleeping door by door and side by sideSomeone had to close the back doorThat day it must have slipped his mindHe was fast asleep in his cabin, tired from cleaning out the hallWhile passengers were eating, indulging duty-free-for-allHerald of Free EnterpriseHerald of Free EnterpriseHerald of Free EnterpriseIn just ninety seconds, right down to the wireSailing with the doors wide open so the waves kept pouring inAs they passed the Outer Mole the disaster could beginAn a hundred yards from the shore right outside a Belgian portThe lights went out the ship turned around and fell to starboardThen nothing but silence, silence and the coldHerald and her sisters just never fit the moldTwo months later she was refloated a final one-way trip exchangePensioned off into the Third WorldWhere they named her Flushing RangeAnd in '88 she broke in two, probably because of guiltPride and Spirit changed their namesThey were all doomed since they were builtThis is the legend of eight sisters, Herald was the famous oneIt happened twenty years ago although the sea was calmI was just a boy then, holding daddy's handWatching on tv how Herald's time came to an end
