Messes Of Men by MewithoutYou

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

Caught me (8)____________ eyes at the other boatman's wives,
and heard me laughing (9)____________ at the (10)__________ (11)________ by their daughters
I'd set my (12)____________ for land,
but you well understand
it takes a steady hand to (13)________________ adulterous waters
The propeller's (14)________________ (15)____________ held acquaintance with the waves
as there's mistakes I've made no rowing could outrun
The cloth blowing on the mast like to say I've got no past
but I'm nonetheless the librarian and secretary's son
with (16)______________ on my brass and mildew on my glass,
I'd never (17)________ someone so crass as to want (18)______________ (19)________ me
but a few leagues off the shore, I bit a (20)________________ lure
and I assure you, it was not what I expected it to be!
I still taste its kiss, that dull hook in my lip
is a (21)____________ as useless as a rod (22)______________ a reel
To an anchor ever-dropped, seasick yet still docked
Captain spotted napping with his first (23)________ at the wheel,
floating forgetfully along, (24)________ no need to be strong
We keep our confessions long and when we (25)________ we keep it short

I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever (26)____________ back

Oh, my God!

I do not exist we faithfully insist
while watching sink the heavy ship of everything we knew
If (27)________ 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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