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The last words of a jaded privateer

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I am now all that I am ever likely to be
I am the tick awaiting its tock
I've been drifting for days
Watching the waves
Without considering the depths or the rocks

I stand before you unburdened of my prime
I have slalomed the slung darts of fate
So now scrub me down
With the women that stuck around
It ain't never but it's late

Without one single exception
I've loathed every man I've longed to be
Now I'm tying the loose ends
To the throats of my friends
On the shore as we push out to sea

Row, row
Mind how she goes
Don't suppose we'll e'er return
At the end of this day
Cast me away
Stoke up the fire
Watch me burn

I'm tired of asserting my sanity
On this mad and miserable world
I have glutted my lust
For quite long enough
And these girls all just make me feel old

So morph me into a fiction
Rearrange my life so it fits
I'll leave you to decide
(Because believe me I've tried)
What the moral of this sordid tale is

Row, row…

Stupefy me with religion
Seduce what remains of my soul
For good or for ill
Give me one last cheap thrill
A heaven instead of a hole

Now squeeze all the trees into paper
So my testament can be writ large
Beneath this swollen sky
We'll watch the ink dry
With our nibs dipped anew in old scars

Row, row…

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from Gentle Songs Of Ceaseless Horror, released March 11, 2016
Song written by Louis Barabbas
Produced by Biff Roxby

Vocals, Guitar, Autoharp and Bodhran - Louis Barabbas
Accordion and Piano - Fran Lydiatt
Tuba and Cello - Biff Roxby

Recorded at WR Audio

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Louis Barabbas is a writer, performer and firefighter, best known for caustic love songs and energetic stage shows.

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