[Downbeat Hook] What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, The ship is breaking beneath sleeping eyes. [Verse 1] The LORD hurled wind where the westward sail ran, The timbers complained and the rigging cried back. Mariners prayed to the names they had known, Then threw every profit and cargo below. [Chorus] What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, The ship is breaking beneath sleeping eyes. Call on thy God; perhaps he will regard us, The captain preached what the prophet had fled. [Verse 2] Above him the deck fought water and night, Below him disobedience slept without light. The word said arise; now a stranger says rise, Mercy can wake us through unfamiliar cries. [Bridge] No cargo can purchase a calm for the sea, The sleeper must answer who sent him to flee. [Final Chorus] What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, The ship is breaking beneath sleeping eyes. The captain preached what the prophet had fled. The sleeper must answer who sent him to flee.