Wreck of the Fallible Songtext
von Fox and the Bird

All the broken, the lowly, and the poor
Were gathered and loaded at the shore
To cast of beggar, thief, and whore
To a lonely road

This mother, her situation grim
Held her child close and leaning in
was praying, "dear Father I have sinned"
"So the boy, he must go"

They say oh,
Why have we been selected now to go?
Out to the ones you′ve neglected in their darkest hours?
Were you ever really there at all?
But when the bell tolls on that grey morn
Would you cut your ties and run?
Here's to the wreck of the fallible


All their rudders travel where they will
For seven generations in the swill
To eat, but never to be filled
Just remain a foe

Battered, arriving at the spot
Awaken after years of being lost
His men, they′re not worried what it cost
They've starved down below

They say oh,
Why have we been rejected by our own?
Was it wrong to expect that in their darkest hours
You were ever really there at all?
But when the bell tolls on that grey morn
Would you cut your ties and run?
Here's to the wreck of the fallible

Just stay another couple days
Floating all alone among the waves
Stowing what others throw away
For the few you could save