A/N: The muse is shot. The recent Crisis Core updates and the possibility of an early showing of PotC3 have finally made me snap. I wrote this in a moment of desperation. Maybe some of you PotC fans can relate…? Try to imagine a crazed fangirl standing outside the movie theatre in the pouring rain with a full pirate costume on and you might understand how I feel in these final days before the storm hits…


A pirate's life for me

Depressing it may be

Don't pretend that I'll survive

If I find you're not alive…

I can't stand this tension any more!

Waiting so long for a trailer or a clip

Pounding on the theatre door!

Ignoring spoilers they let slip

Do you think we've waited all this time

To find that our planning's not worth a dime?

I've spent a year just counting down

Distractions haven't made their mark

My smiles always turn to frowns

When I'm left completely in the dark

How can they think of opening at eight?

Is this bad luck, or twisted fate?

A pirate's life for me

Depressing it may be

Don't pretend that I'll survive

If I find you're not alive…

Cap'n Jack's been gone for nigh a year

Every fan girl's shed her bitter tears

Half have sworn to do that Lizzie in

Half are hoping that Jack's heart she'll win

I, amongst them, have made my final stand

I'll have my revenge or ne'er return to land

And yet my heart is all too quickly won

The dark side of ambition calls me

And as I sit and ponder 'neath the sun

I pray that in some safety wanders he

Rumor has it that I'll lose him, yet…

For all my pain, I'll not forget

A pirate's life for me

Depressing it may be

Don't pretend that I'll survive

If I find you're not alive…

Will Turner has a little crisis of his own

That evil wench that I have sworn to kill

Will he end up unhappily alone?

His love slain by my katana's skill?

I'll have to run when he finds her dead

I'm not fond of sword-blows to the head

Lizzie, that wench, her days are set

I'll bide my time until I see a way

For now I needn't be a threat

I'll make May 25th her final day

No hope for her once I'm on the Pearl

My katana will fell that twisted girl

A pirate's life for me

Depressing it may be

Don't pretend that I'll survive

If I find you're not alive…

Not long now until my waiting ends

I can't see how I'll last that long

My best wishes to you I send

Perhaps I lifted hearts with this song?

Perhaps I'm not alone in my pain…

Perhaps other are hoping to see Jack again…

Hang in there, gents; we're not out yet

A space of time still keeps us from the sea

Plan ahead or forever you'll regret

Not being at the first showing, unlike me

I've got my schedule all worked out, so…

"Drink up, me hearties. Yo ho!"

A pirate's life for me

Depressing it may be

Don't pretend that I'll survive

If I find you're not alive…

Fin.