Messes Of Men by MewithoutYou

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

Caught me making eyes at the other boatman's wives,
and heard me laughing louder at the (5)__________ told by their daughters
I'd set my course for land,
but you well understand
it takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters
The propeller's spinning (6)____________ held (7)________________________ with the waves
as there's (8)________________ I've (9)________ no (10)____________ could outrun
The (11)__________ 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 (12)__________ and mildew on my glass,
I'd never want someone so crass as to want someone (13)________ me
but a few leagues off the shore, I bit a flashing lure
and I assure you, it was not (14)________ I (15)________________ it to be!
I still taste its kiss, that dull hook in my lip
is a memory as (16)______________ as a rod without a reel
To an anchor ever-dropped, seasick yet still docked
Captain (17)______________ napping (18)________ his (19)__________ mate at the wheel,
floating (20)______________________ along, with no need to be strong
We keep our confessions long and when we pray we keep it short

I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever (21)____________ back

Oh, my God!

I do not exist we faithfully insist
while watching (22)________ the heavy ship of everything we knew
If ever you come near I'll (23)________ up (24)________ a mirror
Lord, I could (25)__________ show you (26)________________ as beautiful as You

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