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Laid on my back in the drunken boat
Watched the tops of passing trees
Costumed in craning rubber masks
Locust-bitten leaves
Clouds beyond they crouched by too
Only at half speed
Memory drank from the horizon
Memory drank from the horizon
Memory drank from the horizon
While my eyes dried in the breeze
As flee in the bleeding festival
Circus on dry land
Trial was finally over there
And as still had both my hands
Had only lifted a loaf of bread, they said I'd stolen someone's child
My days was spent at the open
My days was spent at the open
My days was spent at the open
While my dreams bounced around the prison yard
Salty waves that blend and break
Will take me to my home
I let go of the rope and cut the anchor
A sunburned path of foam and tide
On a bed of morning mist
Has lured my drunken boat into the water
Seabirds flew forward across the sun
Wings woven to the gales
Synchronized dance they'd always known
Even before they crawled from their shells
I asked the boat, "Will you care me
To the wind chews up your sails?"
Night grew black, the gulls attacked
Night grew black, the gulls attacked
When night grew black, the gulls attacked
Pecked it full stars
I had flowed finally to the sea
But I had begun on the longest river
Where I watched my life stand still behind me
To be eaten by the rain and the kudzu
And now I was splashing passed the point
Grief or even hunger
Just as I closed my eyes to sleep
Just as I closed my eyes to sleep
Just as I closed my eyes to sleep
Lightning cracked the swollen mirror
Salty waves that blend and break
Will take me to my home
I let go of the rope and cut the anchor
Sunburned path of foam and tide
On a bed of morning mist
Has lured my drunken boat into the water
Woke up on a drifting plant
Shackled to a splinter
Faces frowned in the clouds above
But calm followed the disaster
I had no water nor any crumbs
And I was shaken by my own laughter
Why waste time learning to swim?
Why waste time learning to swim?
Why waste time learning to swim?
How you float that matters?
What else can I tell you, friend?
Of course, I didn't live
My story is an apparition
Another sailor's myth
Don't let the steadfast earthworm catch you
Sleeping on the ground
Lay down with the drunken boat
Lay down with the drunken boat
Lay down with the drunken boat
Where gold is scattered all around
Salty waves that blend and break
Will take me to my home
I let go of the rope and cut the anchor
Sunburned path of foam and tide
On a bed of morning mist
Has lured my drunken boat into the water