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I do not exist, but faithfully insist
Sailing in our separate ships and from each tiny caravelle
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Tiring and trying there's unnecessary dying
like the horseshoe crab in its proper seasons sheds its shell
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Such distance from our friends like a scratch across a lens
made everything look wrong from anywhere we stood
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and our paper blew away before we'd left the bay,
so half-blind we wrote these songs on sheets of salty wood
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Am C E
You caught me making eyes at the other boatmen's wives
G Am
and heard me laughing louder at the jokes told by their daughters
C E
I'd set my course for land, but you well understand
Am
it takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters
C E
the propeller's spinning blades held acquaintance with the waves
G Am
as there's mistake I've made no rowing could outrun
C E
a cloth low on the mast like to say I've got no past
Am
I'm nonetheless a librarian and secretary's son
C E
with tarnish on my brass and mildew on my glass
G Am
I'd never want someone so crass as to want someone like me
C E
but a few leagues off the shore, I bit a flashing lure
Am
and I assure you, it was not what I expected it to be!
C E
I still taste it's kiss, that dull hook in my lip
G Am
is a memory as useless as a rod without a reel
C E
to an anchor-ever-dropped-seasick-yet-still-docked
Am
captain spotted napping with his first mate at the wheel
C E
floating forgetfully along, with no need to be strong
G Am
we keep our confessions long and when we pray we keep them short
C E
I drank a thimbleful of fire, I'm not ever coming back
Am
Oh my god!
C E
"I do not exist" we faithfully insist
G Am
while watching sink the heavy ship of everything we knew
C E
if ever you come near I'll hold up high a mirror
Lord, I could never show you anything as beautiful as you!
