FUN SHIP FOREVER

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Intro

Nineteen seventy-two, a hull hit sand outside of Miami

Verse 1

TSS Mardi Gras, twenty-seven-three GT, who gon' deny me? Empress of Canada stripped down, rebranded for the county First Carnival voyage ran aground, that's the origin, it found me Posted on Seventeenth Street Causeway watchin' ships like scripture A jit in the 954, binoculars, no bigger picture Festivale, thirty-two-seven tonnage, fastest thing out of Miami These weren't resorts, recycled ocean liner frontlines Three ships, zero purpose-built, but they planted a flag in sand

Pre-chorus

From that sandbar, from that stumble off the 395 They wrote the playbook, low-cost, lively, Caribbean-drive Ted Arison with a dream and a used boat And Miami-Dade said bet and held the line afloat

Chorus

All aboard the Fun Ship, we ain't never comin' home! From the sandbar to the stars, watch how far this thing has grown! Twenty-seven thousand tons to a hundred-eighty more Every hull that ever sailed, we remember what it's for! This the 305, the 954, the port where dreams deploy Every ship that left this shore carried someone's pride and joy! Fun Ship forever! Fun Ship forever! They can't sink what we built together!

Verse 2

Tropicale '82, thirty-six-seven GT, first newbuild Fantasy-class, eight ships, seventy-thousand GT, built the brand Fantasy, Ecstasy, Sensation, Fascination, all night Imagination, Inspiration, Elation, Paradise, tight COVID came through like Triumph's engine fire in 2013 Towed that ship for days, the whole world watched the stream Six ships between '20 and '22, the fleet got handled Port Everglades went silent, the emptiness was surgical

Chorus

All aboard the Fun Ship, we ain't never comin' home! From the sandbar to the stars, watch how far this thing has grown! Fun Ship forever! Fun Ship forever! They can't sink what we built together!

Bridge

Spirit-class pulled me back in, eighty-eight-five GT Growing up in Plantation watching ships from the overpass Half-everything, code-switching through every class Spirit-class is me, smaller, versatile, built for longer runs Posted at the rail at sunset, Dominican coast on the horizon That's the turn, when you stop escaping and start arriving

Verse 3

Dream-class dropped, a hundred-thirty thousand GT, resort at sea Vista hit with SkyRide, IMAX in the dark, brewery starboard Excel-class entered, Mardi Gras, 180,800 GT, LNG-powered Named after the original, the one that ran aground in '72 A roller coaster on a ship, eight hundred feet above the ocean The jit from the 954 who watched ships from the overpass says what's up?! Twenty-nine ships, 27,300 to 183,521, do the math Every ship's a server, every itinerary's a deployment, that's the stack

Chorus

Outro

To the next jit on the Seventeenth Street bridge That ship has a name, a tonnage, and a story longer than your block This ain't a cruise line, this a civilization on water This the anthem, sing it loud

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