21st-Century Sailor

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I saw three crows on a live wire
But they looked like an albatross to me
And so tonight I'll start inventing a method
To convince you that I'm worthy of all your pity
A continuous construct, all psychic and disjointed
A lie that I'll tell you every day
Just when you notice my ideas are straight bullshit
You'll leave me alone and alone I'll stay

Whispers of worry while I'm wired for sound
I guess that you're still not around
The immaculate conception of the future we've both always feared
There's no one here to hear our hopes drown

The back seat of your car smelled like pestilence and privilege
And I felt for you but that's never enough
I searched for your eyes in the blind heat of midnight
I meant to utter love, but instead lust came pouring out all over the soiled leather
I know that deep down you will never forgive me
For that Absalom I urged you to abort
So loathe me, but also be wary of the bird
Limp and hung by chains, an omen that chokes my throat, drags bodies down, overboard from our boat

Time passes, and the bitter smell of arsenic and almonds grows and grows and grows and grows and grows and grows and grows etc.

Can you sense this? This imminent crashing of waves
Down the infinities of sea?
The weight that suffocates my voice
Will drag us to the depths if we never learn how to cut ourselves free

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from The Captain's Head Goes Live, released June 23, 2016

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