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 crab in its proper (2)______________ sheds its shell
Such distance from our friends
like a scratch across a lens,
made (3)____________________ (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 (6)____________ eyes at the other boatman's wives,
and heard me laughing louder at the (7)__________ told by (8)__________ daughters
I'd set my course for land,
but you well understand
it takes a (9)____________ hand to navigate adulterous waters
The propeller's spinning blades (10)________ acquaintance with the waves
as there's (11)________________ 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 tarnish on my brass and (12)____________ on my glass,
I'd never want (13)______________ so crass as to want someone like me
but a few (14)______________ off the shore, I bit a flashing lure
and I assure you, it was not what I expected it to be!
I still (15)__________ its kiss, that (16)________ hook in my lip
is a (17)____________ as useless as a rod without a reel
To an anchor ever-dropped, seasick yet (18)__________ docked
Captain spotted (19)______________ with his first (20)________ at the wheel,
floating forgetfully along, (21)________ no need to be strong
We (22)________ our confessions long and (23)________ we pray we keep it short

I drank a thimble full of (24)________ and I'm not ever (25)____________ back

Oh, my God!

I do not exist we faithfully insist
while watching (26)________ the heavy ship of everything we knew
If ever you come near I'll (27)________ up high a mirror
Lord, I could never (28)________ you anything as beautiful as You

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