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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. 02:41 - Feb 7 with 57120 viewsmarkrtid

To kick off easytime.

Bowie

'I never done good things
I never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue, woh-o-oh
Want an axe to break the ice
Wanna come down right now
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low.'

Those words get to me every time I hear them.
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 18:46 - Feb 10 with 3838 viewsTacticalR

Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, rolling into the night
People so busy, make me feel dizzy, taxi light shines so bright
But I don't, need no friends

As long as I gaze on Waterloo Sunset, I am in paradise
Every day I look at the world from my window
Chilly chilly is the evening time, Waterloo sunset's fine

The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset

Air hostess clique

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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 19:02 - Feb 10 with 3827 viewsBazzaInTheLoft

I'm the Scatman

Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
(I'm the Scatman)
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 19:08 - Feb 10 with 3819 viewsrichranger

More from the great Chris Difford of Squeeze

She gave to me her tenderness
Her friendship and her love
I see her face from time to time
There in the sky above
We grew up learning as we went
What a voyage our life could be
It took us through a wilderness
Into the calmest sea
Her smile could lift me from the pain
I often found within
She said some things I won't forget
She made a few bells ring
So simple her humility
Her beauty found in grace
Today she lives another life
In some fantastic place
She showed me how to raise a smile
Out of a bed of gloom
And in her garden sanctuary
A life began to bloom
She visualized a world ahead
And planned how it would be
She left behind the strongest love
That lives eternally
I have the hope that when it's time
For me to come her way
That she'll be there to show me around
Whenever comes that day
Her love was life and happiness
And in her steps I trace
The way to live a better life
In some fantastic place, some fantastic place.
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 19:22 - Feb 10 with 3816 viewsdezzar

There is no more distressing sight than that
of an englishman in a baseball cap
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 19:45 - Feb 10 with 3809 viewsBluce_Ree

Chase it with more beer, taste it like truth or dare
When he have the mic, it's like the place get like: "Aw yeah!"
It's like they know what's 'bout to happen
Just keep ya eye out, like "Aye, aye captain"
Is he still a fly guy clapping if nobody ain't hear it
And can they testify from inner spirit
In living, the true gods
Giving y'all nothing but the lick like two broads
Got more lyrics than the church got "Ooh Lords"
And he hold the mic and your attention like two swords
Or even one with two blades on it
Hey you, don't touch the mic like it's AIDS on it

Madvillain - Accordion

Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.

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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 23:56 - Feb 14 with 3713 viewsted_hendrix

"One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces"

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.

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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 23:59 - Feb 14 with 3708 viewstimcocking

Could write down a lot of Jim Morrison lyrics at this stage...
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 07:25 - Feb 15 with 3687 viewsdistortR

when each was a kid
each had their schools
one taught to rule
the other taught the rules
now one has grown up
the worlds his oyster
while the other
inherited hunger

playground of the rich - spear of destiny
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 10:00 - Feb 15 with 3659 viewsElHoop

The Clash - Death or Glory:

Now every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world
And ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl
Love 'n' hate tattooed across the knuckles of his hands
Hands that slap his kids around 'cause they don't understand how

Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory becomes just another story

'N' every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll
Grabs the mike to tell us he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this and it's been tested by research
He who f*cks nuns will later join the church

Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory becomes just another story

Fear in the down sex
They say lie low
You say okay
Don't wanna play a show
No other thinking
Was it death or glory now
Playing the blues of kings
Sure looks better now

Death or glory just another story
Death or glory just another story

From every dingy basement on every dingy street
Every dragging hand clap over every dragging beat
That's just the beat of time the beat that must go on
If you've been trying for years we already heard your song

Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory just another story

Gotta launch long way
Fight a long time
Get to travel over mountains
Got to travel over seas
We gonna fight your brother
We gonna fight til you loose
We gonna raise trouble
We gonna raise hell
We gonna fight your brother
Raise hell

Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory becomes just another story

Death or glory just another story
Death or glory becomes just another story
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 10:28 - Feb 15 with 3640 viewsTacticalR

Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high-heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older now with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar

Van Morrison, Madame George

Air hostess clique

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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 10:50 - Feb 15 with 3626 viewshopphoops

Happy Friday peeps.

Here's wishing you the bluest sky,
And hoping something better comes tomorrow.
Hoping all the verses rhyme,
And the very best of choruses to
Follow all the doubt and sadness.
I know that better things are on the way.
Here's hoping all the days ahead
Won't be as bitter as the ones behind you.
Be an optimist instead,
And somehow happiness will find you.
Forget what happened yesterday,
I know that better things are on the way.
It's really good to see you rocking out
And having fun,
Living like you just begun.
Accept your life and what it brings.
I hope tomorrow you'll find better things.
I know tomorrow you'll find better things.
Here's wishing you the bluest sky,
And hoping something better comes tomorrow.
Hoping all the verses rhyme,
And the very best of choruses to
Follow all the drudge and sadness.
I know that better things are on the way.
I know you've got a lot of good things happening up ahead.
The past is gone it's all been said.
So here's to what the future brings,
I know tomorrow you'll find better things.
I know tomorrow you'll find better things.

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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 11:55 - Feb 15 with 3612 viewsTacticalR

@ElHoop 'Death or glory becomes just another story'

Echoes of a certain song from 1931?

It's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die

As Time Goes By

Air hostess clique

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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 12:14 - Feb 15 with 3596 viewsrobith

My favourite Bruce lyrics, The Promised Land

On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert
I pick up my money and head back into town
Driving 'cross the Waynesboro county line
I got the radio on and I'm just killing time
Working all day in my daddy's garage
Driving all night chasing some mirage
Pretty soon little girl I'm gonna take charge

I've done my best to live the right way
I get up every morning and go to work each day
But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold
Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode
Explode and tear this whole town apart
Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart
Find somebody itching for something to start

Well there's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor
I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm
Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
That ain't got the faith to stand its ground
Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
Blow away the dreams that break your heart
Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted

So the dogs on Main Street howl
'Cause they understand
If I could take one moment into my hands
Mister I ain't a boy, no I'm a man
And I believe in a promised land
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 12:19 - Feb 15 with 3592 viewsElHoop

Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 11:55 - Feb 15 by TacticalR

@ElHoop 'Death or glory becomes just another story'

Echoes of a certain song from 1931?

It's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die

As Time Goes By


Yes indeed Tactical, by the look of it!

'Filming on Rude Boy was complete. David Mingay went down to Vanilla to remind the group of their promise to write a song for the end-title music. Joe pretended they'd forgotten about it. But they already had the tune, "Rudie Can't Fail," a song that used the faster reggae rhythm of the late 1960s. It was one of the Clash's best tunes, a timeless number, written especially to link up with the Rude Boy title. "It was written about Ray being a drunken idiot," Mingay said, "and Joe particularly put that line in -- 'drinking brew for breakfast.' Myself and Jack Hazan went there to hear what they were doing. They delivered it on time, efficiently and professionally. They weren't rebellious in any way where their work was concerned."

When the two filmmakers visited Vanilla, Joe was working on the vocals of another new song, "Death or Glory." While filming Rude Boy, Joe had told David Mingay of his love of Casablanca, the 1942 cinematic masterpiece starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, a regular treat on television. "Death or Glory" has intriguing lyrics, cynical, world-weary, perhaps revelatory. Joe makes both a statement of intent and a comment on the reality of that intent. Is Joe considering himself in the marvelous second verse? "I believe in this, and it's been tested by research / That he who f*cks nuns will later join the church."

The song misquotes Casablanca, a takeoff of the film's famous set-piece song, "As Time Goes By," and its lines "It's just the same old story / A tale of love and glory." "He admitted to me that he had twisted it around from 'As Time Goes By,'" said David Mingay. "I think he was always worried -- or at least romantically interested -- in the idea that it should all end in an intensity that could cause death, as had happened with Sid Vicious. That for the icon of being a rock star to really work it would have to die, to die young."

The line "He who f*cks nuns will later join the church" -- clearly not taken from the lyrics of "As Time Goes By" -- always seemed greatly significant, Joe speaking of his own dilemmas and internal difficulties: the anarchist squatter who in some way regarded himself as a failure or traitor for having broken with his past and joined the Clash -- where a different form of conformity was called for. In his battle with himself, Joe couldn't win. Don Letts said, "The problem with Joe is that he sees everything in terms of black and white: always one or the other. He doesn't realize that there are all these shades of gray in the middle. He's beating himself up over that." But most of that was yet to come. It would grow much larger before it was fully visible.'

* * *

Excerpted from REDEMPTION SONG: The Ballad of Joe Strummer by Chris Salewicz,


https://www.popmatters.com/part-3-red-hand-of-fate-1979-2496246406.html
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 12:23 - Feb 15 with 3589 viewsrobith

And could flood the thread with Hold Steady lyrics, but the ones for Constructive Summer always get me

Me and my friends are like the drums on "Lust for Life"
We pound it out on floor toms
Our psalms are sing-along songs

And this whole town is like this
Been that way our whole lives
Just work at the mill until you die
Work at the mill, and then you die

We're gonna build something, this summer

We'll put it back together raise up a giant ladder
With love, and trust, and friends, and hammers (this summer!)
We're gonna lean this ladder up against the water tower
Climb up to the top and drink and talk (this summer!)

Me and my friends are like "Doublewhiskeycokenoice."
We drink along in double time, might drink too much, but we feel fine
We're gonna build something this summer.


This summer, grant us all the power to drink on top of water towers,
With love, and trust, and shows, all summer (get hammered!)
Let this be my annual reminder that we can all be something bigger

I went to your schools, I did my detention
But the walls are so grey I couldn't pay attention
I heard your gospel it moved me to tears,
But I couldn't find the hate, and I couldn't find the fear
I met your Savior, I knelt at his feet,
And he took my ten bucks and he went down the street
I tried to believe all the things that you said
But my friends that aren't dying are already dead.

Raise a toast to St. Joe Strummer
I think he might've been our only decent teacher
Getting older makes it harder to remember
We are our only saviors
We're gonna build something this summer
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 12:29 - Feb 15 with 3587 viewshubble

So well known, but still brilliant...

Ah look at all the lonely people
Ah look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice
In the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face
That she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie, writing the words
Of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him working, darning his socks
In the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Ah look at all the lonely people
Ah look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby, died in the church
And was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt
From his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 13:07 - Feb 15 with 3572 viewsCroydonCaptJack

In the darkest times
Darkest fears are heard
And from the safest places
Come the bravest words
Some make a quiet life
To keep this
Scared old world at bay
The dogs are howling on the street outside
So they close the curtains, hope they go away
And it's pressure from all sides
Coming down around our ears
Stuck in this room without a door
Scratched away at the walls for years
All we've got to show is the dust on the floor
And here it comes, a new dark age

I catch your eyes
Before they fall to the ground
We're running out of time, breath and steam
We're running down
They're burning witches
Up on punishment hill
Dying proof in the power of authority
To exact it's will
And we've broken our fingers
Broken our faith
Broken our hearts so many times
They can't be broken anymore
Scratched away at the walls for years
All we've got to show is the dust on the floor
And here it comes, a new dark age
Here it comes...
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 15:51 - Feb 15 with 3549 viewshopphoops

Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 12:29 - Feb 15 by hubble

So well known, but still brilliant...

Ah look at all the lonely people
Ah look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice
In the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face
That she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie, writing the words
Of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him working, darning his socks
In the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Ah look at all the lonely people
Ah look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby, died in the church
And was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt
From his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?


It's savage isn't it.

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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 17:29 - Feb 15 with 3534 viewswelwynranger

Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 15:51 - Feb 15 by hopphoops

It's savage isn't it.


They tell you there's room at the top of the hill
But first you must learn how to smile when you kill

John Lennon Working Class Hero.

Pushing through the market square,so.many.mothers sighing
News has just come over we have 5 years left to die in
Newsman wept and told us earth was really dying cried so much his face was wet then we knew he was not lying.

David Bowie 5 years.

They say I drink too much to me well that's just profound
How do you know you can't swim until you have drowned.

Beautiful South Window Shopping for Blinds .
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 17:49 - Feb 15 with 3529 viewsR_from_afar

Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 15:51 - Feb 15 by hopphoops

It's savage isn't it.


It's awesome in the original version but I think this speed metal version also works:

"No one was saaaaaaaaved!"

Any how, moving on, here are Half Man Half Biscuit with "National Shite Day":
Pulling the ice axe from my leg
I staggered on
Spindrift stinging my remaining eye

I finally managed to reach the station
Only to find that the bus replacement service had broken down

After wondering to myself whether or not it should actually be called a train replacement service
I walked out onto the concourse and noticed the giant screen seemed to have been tampered with
Probably by a junior employee
Disgruntled commuters were being regaled with some dismal TVM
Involving a tug-of-love-custody-battle
Stockard Channing held sway

Down in the High Street somebody careered out of Boots without due care or attention
I suggest that they learn some pedestrian etiquette
i.e sidle out of the store gingerly
Embrace the margin

Fat kids with sausage rolls
Poor sods conducting polls

There’s a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets

I try to put everything into perspective
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white

Shite Day
I guess this must be National Shite Day
This surely must be National Shite Day
Don’t tell me, it’s National Shite Day

Float… float on
Float… float on
Barry… Herpes

I got a letter from Stringy Bob:
“Still on suicide watch
Screws not happy
Spotted a marsh fritillary during association
Was roundly ignored
What news you?”
I felt sorry for him
He’d only been locked up for public nuisance offences
One of which saw him beachcombing the Dee Estuary
Found a dead wading bird
Took it home, parcelled it up, and sent it off to the rubber-faced irritant Phil Cool
With a note inside which read: “Is this your sanderling?”

Another time saw him answering an advert in the music press
“Keyboard player required: Doors, Floyd, etc.
Must be committed, no time wasters”
You can guess the rest

I’d always imagined he would simply wander off some day into the hills
To be found months later
His carcass stripped by homeless dogs
His exposed skull a perch for the quartering crow

I folded away the letter and put it in my inside pocket
All of a sudden I felt brushed by the wings of something dark
May the Lord have mercy on Stringy Bob

Shite Day
I do believe it’s National Shite Day
It all points to National Shite Day
Someone’s declared it National Shite Day

Shite Day
My birthday! On National Shite Day
No bogroll, it’s National Shite Day
Cue drumroll, it’s National Shite Day

RFA

"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."

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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 22:37 - Feb 15 with 3486 viewsFearless

And I need you more than want you,
And I want you for all time

Witchita Lineman - Gets me every time

On a separate subject, you could just post the complete lyrics of Van Morrison here.

(Loving the squeeze and kinks ones too)
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 22:54 - Feb 15 with 3478 viewswelwynranger

Shine on you crazy diamond

Money so they say is the root of all evil today

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

Pink Floyd
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 21:25 - Feb 24 with 3416 viewsTacticalR

Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 22:54 - Feb 15 by welwynranger

Shine on you crazy diamond

Money so they say is the root of all evil today

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

Pink Floyd


That seems appropriate in the light of Roger Waters laying into Branson.

"It has nothing to do with humanitarian aid at all," Waters said. "It has to do with Richard Branson...having bought the US saying, 'We have decided to take over Venezuela, for whatever our reasons may be.'"

Roger Waters condemns Richard Branson's Venezuela aid concert
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/20/pink-floyd-roger-waters-condemns-r

Air hostess clique

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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 21:27 - Feb 24 with 3414 viewsTacticalR

I had always assumed some of the lyrics in Streets of Philadelphia were a shot against religion in general, but apparently they are a shot against the Catholicism of Springsteen's childhood:

I walked the avenues till my legs felt like stone
I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone
At night I could hear the blood in my veins
Black and whispering as the rain
On the streets of Philadelphia

Ain't no angel gonna greet me
It's just you and I my friend

Bruce Springsteen, Streets of Philadelphia

Air hostess clique

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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 15:42 - Feb 25 with 3331 viewspaesanu

We are two mariners
Our ship's sole survivors
In this belly of a whale
It's ribs are ceiling beams
It's guts are carpeting
I guess we have some time to kill

You may not remember me
I was a child of three
And you, a lad of eighteen
But, I remember you
And I will relate to you
How our histories interweave

At the time you were
A rake and a roustabout
Spending all your money
On the whores and hounds

You had a charming air
All cheap and debonair
My widowed mother found so sweet
And so she took you in
Her sheets still warm with him
Now filled with filth and foul disease

As time wore on you proved
A debt-ridden drunken mess
Leaving my mother
A poor consumptive wretch

And then you disappeared
Your gambling arrears
The only thing you left behind
And then the magistrate
Reclaimed our small estate
And my poor mother lost her mind

Then, one day in spring
My dear sweet mother died
But, before she did
I took her hand as she, dying, cried:
(Oh, oh)
"Find him, find him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave"

It took me fifteen years
To swallow all my tears
Among the urchins in the street
Until a priory
Took pity and hired me
To keep their vestry nice and neat
But, never once in the employ
Of these holy men
Did I ever, once turn my mind
From the thought of revenge

One night I overheard
The prior exchanging words
With a penitent whaler from the sea
The captain of his ship
Who matched you toe to tip
Was known for wanton cruelty

The following day
I shipped to sea
With a privateer
And in the whistle
Of the wind
I could almost hear
(Oh, oh)
"Find him, find him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave
There is one thing I must say to you
As you sail across the sea
Always, your mother will watch over you
As you avenge this wicked deed"

And then, that fateful night
We had you in our sight
After twenty months, it seemed
Your starboard flank abeam
I was getting my muskets clean
When came this rumbling from beneath
The ocean shook
The sky went black
And the captain quailed
And before us grew
The angry jaws
Of a giant whale

Don't know how I survived
The crew all was chewed alive
I must have slipped between his teeth
But, oh, what providence
What divine intelligence
That you should survive
As well as me
It gives my eye great joy
To see your eyes fill with fear
To lean in close
And I will whisper
The last words you'll hear
[Post edited 25 Feb 2019 15:47]

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