[Silence]
\n[Instrumental Intro: Deep Sub-Bass, Swampy Electric Guitar, Low Piano, Organ, Drums, Percussion, Saxophone]<\/p>\n
[Intro]
\nCrude…
\n(Screwed!)<\/p>\n
Costs…
\n(Loss!)<\/p>\n
How much?
\nWell…
\n(Bloody hell!)<\/p>\n
[Verse 1]
\nDown at the dock
\n(What’s that shock?)
\nTanker in the water
\n(Sinking like a rock?)<\/p>\n
[Pre-Chorus]
\nThe tank didn’t sink
\n(The price did rise)
\nLook at that number
\n(Before your eyes!)<\/p>\n
Surprise
\n(Surprise)<\/p>\n
[Refrain]
\nYa woulda thought
\n(The tank sank)
\nYou’d be at loss…
\n(Crude costs)<\/p>\n
[Verse 2]
\nTime-charter earnings
\n(That’s the score)
\nOne point two million
\n(Dollars a day or more!)<\/p>\n
[Refrain]
\nYa woulda thought
\n(The tank sank)
\nYou’d be at loss…
\n(Crude costs)<\/p>\n
[Bridge]
\nDid the ship sink?
\n(What do you think?)<\/p>\n
It’s just the cost
\n(That’s lost)<\/p>\n
[Break]
\n[Drums Drop to Half-Time]
\nSixteen…
\nThousand…<\/p>\n
[Pause]<\/p>\n
One-point-two…
\nMillion!<\/p>\n
[Band Hit]<\/p>\n
A DAY!
\n(In pay)<\/p>\n
[Instrumental]
\n[Extended Swampy Guitar Solo Over Deep Bass, Organ and Driving Piano \u2014 Saxophone Answers With Short Bursts]<\/p>\n
[Final Refrain]
\nYa woulda thought
\n(The tank sank)
\nYou’d be at loss…
\n(Crude costs)<\/p>\n
Noo…
\nIt was the cost
\n(That was lost)<\/p>\n
[Outro]
\nYa woulda thought
\n(The tank sank)
\nYou’d be at loss…
\n(Crude costs)<\/p>\n
Noo…
\nIt was the cost
\n(That was lost)
\n[Deep Bass Hit]<\/p>\n
Crude costs!<\/p>\n
[Bass Hit]<\/p>\n
[Silence]
\n[End]<\/p>\n
About the Song
\nOil Shipping Costs Explode: From ~$16,000 to More Than $1.2 Million a Day<\/p>\n
The cost of transporting crude oil by the world\u2019s largest oil tankers has reached extraordinary levels.<\/p>\n
On the benchmark TD3C route \u2014 a 270,000-metric-ton Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) traveling from the Middle East Gulf to China \u2014 daily time-charter-equivalent (TCE) earnings have surged from roughly $16,000\/day in 2020 to more than $1.2 million\/day in September 2026.<\/p>\n
That is not simply a large increase. It represents an extraordinary transformation in the economics of moving oil by sea.<\/p>\n