Messes Of Men by MewithoutYou

I do not exist, but faithfully insist
Sailing in our separate ships
and from (1)________ (2)________ caravelle
Tiring and trying there's (3)______________________ dying
like the horseshoe crab in its proper seasons (4)__________ its shell
Such distance from our friends
like a (5)______________ across a lens,
made everything look wrong from anywhere we stood
and our paper blew away before we'd left the bay,
so half-blind we (6)__________ these songs on sheets of salty wood

Caught me making (7)________ at the other boatman's wives,
and heard me laughing louder at the jokes told by (8)__________ daughters
I'd set my (9)____________ for land,
but you well understand
it (10)__________ a (11)____________ hand to navigate (12)____________________ waters
The propeller's spinning blades (13)________ acquaintance with the waves
as there's mistakes I've made no rowing could outrun
The (14)__________ blowing on the mast like to say I've got no past
but I'm nonetheless the librarian and secretary's son
with (15)______________ on my brass and mildew on my glass,
I'd (16)__________ want someone so crass as to want someone like me
but a few leagues off the shore, I bit a flashing lure
and I assure you, it was not what I expected it to be!
I still taste its kiss, that (17)________ hook in my lip
is a memory as (18)______________ as a rod without a reel
To an anchor ever-dropped, seasick yet (19)__________ docked
Captain (20)______________ napping with his first mate at the wheel,
floating (21)______________________ along, with no (22)________ to be strong
We (23)________ our confessions long and when we (24)________ we keep it short

I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever coming back

Oh, my God!

I do not exist we faithfully insist
while watching sink the heavy ship of everything we knew
If ever you come near I'll hold up high a mirror
Lord, I could never show you anything as beautiful as You

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