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The Blurry Sea

from Escape from Leptonia by Quark Lepton

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Inspired by a misheard Jack Kerouac lyric, by way of Tom Waits.

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The timbers creak
Carved out of redwoods from the darkened woods
Cradling your body and your earthly goods

And misery
Is your final companion on the blurry sea
You strain for sight of land but none will come

You scan the waves
Don't think about the food sores or the scurvy sores
Don't bother cursing rats or fate or hungry whores

The blurry sea
Throw their bodies overboard, the blurry sea
Throw their bodies down into the deep

The men have come
To die out on the salty waves and roll the dice
Miss their wives, their daughters, and their sons

Inside the hold
The virgins cling together, they're afraid and cold
Cut them down and offer sacrifice

(And all your secrets will gather in the water
And they'll wait for you patiently til someone tips you over
And your infamy will have to long outlive you and the sunset
Will grow like blood above and spread out just like a blanket
On the blurry sea; you're churning in teh water, in the alchemy
The dying sons and daughters will all become your enemies
And they will take you down into the deep

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from Escape from Leptonia, released June 2, 2011
Steve: singing and stuff

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