This song describes a ship wrecking into an ice berg and the people aboard panicking and evacuating ship. Women and children first, men second.
The panic of the situation is represented in the relatively high tempo on this song, starkly contrasted by the next song, Marooned, in which a survivor of...
Sailing under a false flag
We're crossing the IDL
Becalmed where no creature lives
Lost, forsaken, cursed
Holed below the water line
A shift in the plimsoll line
Pumps in the engine room
Women and children first
Hysterical, no humour
Sabotage, a rumour
Captainless and captionless
Injury, hunger, thirst
Reptile, prehensile
Servile, editorial
Gentile, fatal
Men 2nd was written by Graham Lewis.
Men 2nd was produced by Mike Thorne.