Messes Of Men by MewithoutYou

I do not exist, but faithfully insist
Sailing in our separate ships
and (1)________ each tiny caravelle
Tiring and (2)____________ there's unnecessary dying
like the horseshoe crab in its proper seasons (3)__________ its shell
Such distance from our friends
like a scratch across a lens,
made everything (4)________ wrong from anywhere we stood
and our paper blew away before we'd (5)________ the bay,
so half-blind we wrote these songs on sheets of salty wood

Caught me making eyes at the (6)__________ boatman's wives,
and heard me laughing (7)____________ at the jokes told by (8)__________ daughters
I'd set my (9)____________ for land,
but you well understand
it (10)__________ a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters
The propeller's spinning blades held (11)________________________ with the waves
as there's (12)________________ I've made no (13)____________ could outrun
The cloth blowing on the (14)________ like to say I've got no past
but I'm (15)______________________ the librarian and secretary's son
with tarnish on my brass and mildew on my glass,
I'd never want someone so crass as to (16)________ someone like me
but a few (17)______________ off the shore, I bit a flashing lure
and I assure you, it was not what I (18)________________ it to be!
I still (19)__________ its kiss, that dull hook in my lip
is a memory as (20)______________ as a rod without a reel
To an anchor ever-dropped, seasick yet still docked
Captain (21)______________ napping with his (22)__________ mate at the wheel,
floating forgetfully along, with no need to be strong
We keep our (23)______________________ (24)________ and when we pray we (25)________ it short

I (26)__________ a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever coming back

Oh, my God!

I do not exist we faithfully insist
while (27)________________ sink the heavy ship of everything we knew
If ever you come near I'll hold up high a mirror
Lord, I could (28)__________ show you anything as beautiful as You

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