Messes Of Men by MewithoutYou

I do not exist, but faithfully insist
Sailing in our separate ships
and from each (1)________ caravelle
Tiring and trying there's unnecessary dying
like the (2)__________________ crab in its proper seasons sheds its shell
Such (3)________________ from our friends
like a scratch across a lens,
made everything (4)________ wrong from anywhere we stood
and our (5)__________ blew away before we'd left the bay,
so half-blind we (6)__________ (7)__________ songs on sheets of salty wood

Caught me (8)____________ eyes at the other boatman's wives,
and heard me laughing louder at the (9)__________ told by their daughters
I'd set my (10)____________ for land,
but you well understand
it takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters
The propeller's spinning blades held acquaintance with the waves
as there's (11)________________ I've made no rowing could outrun
The cloth (12)______________ on the mast like to say I've got no past
but I'm (13)______________________ the librarian and secretary's son
with (14)______________ on my brass and mildew on my glass,
I'd never want someone so crass as to want (15)______________ like me
but a few leagues off the shore, I bit a (16)________________ lure
and I (17)____________ you, it was not what I (18)________________ it to be!
I (19)__________ taste its kiss, that dull hook in my lip
is a memory as useless as a rod without a reel
To an anchor ever-dropped, (20)______________ yet still docked
Captain spotted napping with his first mate at the wheel,
floating (21)______________________ along, (22)________ no need to be strong
We keep our confessions long and when we (23)________ 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 (24)________________ (25)________ the heavy ship of everything we knew
If ever you come near I'll hold up high a mirror
Lord, I could never (26)________ you (27)________________ as (28)__________________ as You

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