Robyn Hitchcock – The Ghost Ship (Guitar)

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to still come back and marry me

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The rust is where her heart should be tonight

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Her face is where her fingers were tonight

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A glassy checkered engine room

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The speechless silence of the tomb

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The manuscripts inside the womb unfurls

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A girl

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Translucent as a jelly fish

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that palpitates upon a dish

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She stings you with her gently falling curl

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And sinking in the waters green tonight

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I wonder where my love has been tonight

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The ghost ship changes course

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and on the deck there stands a horse

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who's munching on sardines and gorse and hay

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The captain draws a net across the bay

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The bubbles rising from the deep

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where dead men sing themselves to sleep

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From oak and coral they deceive to say

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Okay

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You read my future like a chart

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See through my skin into my heart

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That flutters in my ribcage like a bird

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And the ghost ship sails on into someone's life

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The air from bottles forms into

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the skeletons of all the crew

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In white they dance against the blue and wail

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Their curling bodies flail around the sail

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The figurehead before the mast

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stares back into the golden past

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Across the wrinkled sea so vast, forlorn

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She moans

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She flutters 'round me like a moth

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that beats against mosquito cloth

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and tries to eat her way into my dreams

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And sinking in the waters green tonight

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I wonder where my love has been tonight

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The melons on the riverbank

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are bulging through decaying plank

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Their beauty is so warm and dank and light

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The captain wears a headless grin tonight

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And silhouetted on the blue

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The cook, the mate, the bosun too

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They know not why or what they do at all

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They fall

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Like masonry in the abyss

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that opens every time we kiss

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I hear their laughter echo 'round the bay

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And the ghost ship sails on into someone's life