Messes Of Men by MewithoutYou

I do not exist, but faithfully insist
Sailing in our separate ships
and from each (1)________ caravelle
Tiring and trying there's unnecessary dying
like the horseshoe crab in its proper seasons (2)__________ its shell
Such distance from our friends
like a scratch across a lens,
made everything look wrong (3)________ (4)________________ we stood
and our (5)__________ (6)________ away (7)____________ we'd left the bay,
so half-blind we wrote these songs on (8)____________ of salty wood

Caught me making eyes at the other boatman's wives,
and heard me (9)________________ louder at the jokes told by their daughters
I'd set my course for land,
but you well understand
it (10)__________ a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters
The propeller's spinning (11)____________ held acquaintance with the waves
as there's (12)________________ I've made no rowing could outrun
The cloth (13)______________ on the (14)________ like to say I've got no past
but I'm nonetheless the librarian and secretary's son
with tarnish on my brass and (15)____________ on my glass,
I'd (16)__________ want someone so crass as to want someone like me
but a few (17)______________ off the shore, I bit a flashing lure
and I (18)____________ you, it was not (19)________ I expected it to be!
I still taste its kiss, that dull hook in my lip
is a memory as useless as a rod without a reel
To an anchor ever-dropped, seasick yet (20)__________ docked
Captain spotted napping with his (21)__________ mate at the wheel,
floating forgetfully along, with no (22)________ to be strong
We (23)________ our confessions (24)________ and when we pray we keep it short

I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not (25)________ coming back

Oh, my God!

I do not exist we faithfully insist
while watching sink the heavy ship of everything we knew
If ever you come (26)________ I'll hold up high a mirror
Lord, I could never show you anything as beautiful as You

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