Messes Of Men by MewithoutYou

I do not exist, but faithfully insist
Sailing in our separate ships
and from each (1)________ caravelle
Tiring and (2)____________ there's (3)______________________ dying
like the horseshoe crab in its proper seasons (4)__________ its shell
Such distance from our friends
like a scratch (5)____________ a lens,
made (6)____________________ (7)________ wrong from anywhere we stood
and our paper blew away (8)____________ we'd left the bay,
so half-blind we wrote these songs on sheets of (9)__________ wood

Caught me making (10)________ at the other boatman's wives,
and heard me laughing louder at the (11)__________ told by their daughters
I'd set my (12)____________ for land,
but you (13)________ understand
it takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters
The propeller's (14)________________ blades held acquaintance with the waves
as there's mistakes I've (15)________ no (16)____________ could outrun
The cloth blowing on the mast like to say I've got no past
but I'm nonetheless the librarian and secretary's son
with tarnish on my brass and mildew on my glass,
I'd never want (17)______________ so (18)__________ as to want someone like me
but a few leagues off the shore, I bit a flashing lure
and I assure you, it was not what I (19)________________ it to be!
I still taste its kiss, that (20)________ hook in my lip
is a memory as useless as a rod without a reel
To an anchor ever-dropped, (21)______________ yet still docked
Captain spotted (22)______________ (23)________ his first mate at the wheel,
floating (24)______________________ along, with no need to be strong
We keep our confessions long and (25)________ we pray we keep it short

I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not (26)________ coming back

Oh, my God!

I do not exist we faithfully insist
while (27)________________ sink the heavy ship of everything we knew
If ever you come (28)________ I'll hold up high a mirror
Lord, I could never show you anything as beautiful as You

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