Deane wrecked them for the money off the freezing coast of Maine
they needed meat, the carpenter was too dead to complain
and it happens that the captain had been trained in butchery
there’s no atheists in foxholes, and there’s no God at sea

Franklin sailed the Terror proudly into Baffin Bay
but his hand still reaches for the Beaufort Sea until this day
was it lead or ice or pride? None can know but all agree
there’s no atheists in foxholes, and there’s no God at sea

But you were always different from them darling
they didn’t have the knowledge or the nerve
and you were meant for this, you know heard it calling
if you want it more, you’ll get what you deserve
why shouldn’t you just get what you deserve

Pollard went back to Nantucket having drunk his kinsman's blood
he sailed again, shipwrecked again, a Jonah he was judged
at night he’d close his eyes and see the whale, nowhere to flee
there’s no atheists in foxholes, and there’s no God at sea

But you were always different from them darling
they didn’t have the knowledge or the nerve
and you were meant for this, you know heard it calling
if you want it more, you’ll get what you deserve
why shouldn’t you just get what you deserve
you asked for this, you get what you deserve

"it is finished, it is finished" Crowhurst scribbled in his log
and he stepped right off the transom into history and fog
his madness was the method, it is the mercy whispered he
there’s no atheists in foxholes -
and there’s no God at sea