Is this just another day
This god forgotten place
First comes love and then comes pain
Let the games begin
questions rise and answers fall
Insurmountable

Love boat captain
Take the reigns and steer us towards the clear
Here
It's already been sung
But it can't be said enough
All you need is love

Is this just another phase
Of earthquakes making waves
Trying to shake the cancer off
Oh, stupid human beings
Once you hold the hand of love
It's all surmountable

Hold me and make it the truth
That when all is lost there'll be you
Cuz to the universe, I don't mean a thing
And there is just one word I still believe
And it's love...

It's an art to live with pain
Mix the light into grey
Lost nine friends we'll never know
Two years ago today
And if our lives became too long
Would it add to our regret

And the young they can lose hope
Cuz they can't see beyond today...
The wisdom that the old can't give away, hey
Constant recoil
Sometimes life don't leave you alone

Hold me and make it the truth
That when all is lost there will be you
Cuz to the universe
I don't mean a thing
And there is just one word and i still believe
And it's love... love, love, love, love

Love boat captain
Take the reigns
Steer us towards the clear
I know it's already been sung
It can't be said enough
Love is all you need...
All you need is love
love, love...

Previous songs of the moment
In My Tree
Red Mosquito
Porch
I Got Id
Release
Do The Evolution
Breath
Corduroy
Elderly Woman...
Leash
Hail Hail
Grievance

This was a song I didn't care much for at first, but has grown on me all the time. Musically it's okay. It has the same problem that a lot of their later anthems have--it feels more like a demo, like it's missing some depth to it--a great idea that they never finished. And the title is appalling.

I also can't stand the recycled beatles lyrics.

Once you get past that though the lyrics to the verses are really excellent, and there are some nice themes here--younger people having to learn to look to the older and wiser for perspective on the world. What seems immediate and terrible today will fade with time, and we'll grow from it and maybe end up a better person for the experience.

At least that's the part of the song I really like. If the message is pnly love is nice then as Eddie said--it's all been sung before--and the song gets a bit redundant.

A nice song to write on the eve of 40.

Who do you think the love boat captain? Lyrically it seems like he'd be singing about Lennon but I always imagined this being about Neil Young or the Ramone he was really close to.

awesome song.

love it when it opens the show and ed changes the words to "let the show begin"

Me too

Not as much as can't keep (it'll be wonderful tonight) though


Do you like it better with the Boom intro or with the Ed solo intro?

Love Boat Captain is one of my favourite Riot Act songs, and it's a beautifull balad. This is one of the best examples that music is what you make of it. Basically because it's said that the lyrics were written based on a tragedy and people who died, and for me it's such a beautiful love song.

There are some parts of the song that are just amazing. The part that says "Hold me and make it the truth / That when all is lost there'll be you / Cuz to the universe, I don't mean a thing / And there is just one word I still believe / And it's love... " is great, I think that everybody sometimes feel that to the universe you don't mean a thing, because the universe can be only a person...

"And there is just one word and i still believe / And it's love... love, love, love, love" is so true...

This is it.

boom.

when i first heard there was going ot be a song called "love boat captain" on the new record, i was highly skeptical, but i loved it the 1st time i heard it.

just a typical pj song.i think the band can write better songs that lbc.i didn't like the lyrics.comparing to sad lyrics i think sad is so much superior..

i think this song stanks.

i like how it begins, and i like how it ends, but the in between part i don't like. I was so happy i didn't hear it in AC.

I just don't like the flow. If this song was written 8 years ago, I think it would be better.

easily the best parts of the song

is this not the song that is partly responsible for boom being in the band? pretty glad it happened.

i really disliked it when i heard it on riot act, but ever since i heard it at MSG as an opener, i think this is such a kick-ass song and i love when the song picks up and gets going.

Not a bad song, but certainly nowhere near one of the band's best. How this came to be the third track on "Riot Act," while Undone (a much more powerful song, in my opinion) became a b-side is still a giant mystery to me.

And though Boom is credited as co-writer, let's face it: this is a song written by Ed and Boom merely adds the organ part. Nothing against Boom, because I love him, but if his contribution is why this song made the album, that's bullshit.

The absence of undone and down continue to amaze me--especially because they have the same upbeat message as LBC.

the fact that undone was only played once amazes me.

to me the best part is this one:

And the young they can lose hope
Cuz they can't see beyond today...
The wisdom that the old can't give away, hey
Constant recoil
Sometimes life don't leave you alone

but it´s all good...such a beautiful and powerful song..loved it from the very first time

this is by far my favorite song on riot act. the title is terrible, but musically and lyrically i love. the slow build up is great as a live opener.

great song...decent opener but i like how ed changes the lyrics and his voice for partsi n the song at live shows

I like the message in the song...but this one wouldn't crack my top 50.

It's not half the song Even Flow is.

I agree... it's just a bit plain, IMO