I'm about to sing for you now. We're all about to sing for you now -- a song from the sea. Sometimes you get out on the sea and in the middle of the night, you can't see your hand in front of your face. There's a way to navigate, though, by the stars. I never learned.
But I always loved the sea, and stuff about the sea: sea horses, sea shells, C minuses ... stuff about the sea. Sometimes I sing this song to myself and ... I think this song isn't about the sea at all, this song is about just trying to get someplace, get out of it, get out of whatever ... just get away.
Well I'm leaving my family, I'm leaving all my friends
My body's at home, but my heart's in the wind
And the clouds are like headlines upon a new front-page sky
My tears are salt water, the moon's full and high
And I know Joe Conrad would be proud of me
Many before me have been called by the sea
To be up in the crow's nest, singing my saying
Shiver me timbers, let's all sail away
And the fog's lifting, the sand's shifting, I'm drifting on out
Old captain Ahab got nothing on me
Swallow me, don't follow me, I'm traveling alone
Blue water's my daughter, I skip like a stone
And the fog's lifting, the sand's shifting, I'm drifting on out
Old captain Ahab got nothing on me
Swallow me, don't follow me, I'm traveling alone
Blue water's my daughter, I skip like a stone
Won't you please call my family, tell them not to cry
My goodbyes are written by the moon in the sky
Say, "Hey, nobody knows me, I got no reason to stay"
Shiver me timbers, I'm sailing away
-David
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