Messes Of Men by MewithoutYou

I do not exist, but faithfully insist
Sailing in our separate ships
and from each tiny caravelle
Tiring and trying there's (1)______________________ dying
like the (2)__________________ (3)________ in its (4)____________ seasons sheds its shell
Such distance from our friends
like a scratch across a lens,
made (5)____________________ (6)________ wrong from (7)________________ we stood
and our paper blew (8)________ before we'd left the bay,
so half-blind we wrote (9)__________ songs on sheets of (10)__________ wood

Caught me making eyes at the other boatman's wives,
and heard me laughing (11)____________ at the (12)__________ (13)________ by their daughters
I'd set my course for land,
but you well understand
it takes a (14)____________ hand to navigate adulterous waters
The propeller's spinning blades (15)________ acquaintance with the waves
as there's (16)________________ I've (17)________ no rowing (18)__________ 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 (19)______________ on my brass and mildew on my glass,
I'd never want someone so crass 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 expected it to be!
I still taste its kiss, that dull hook in my lip
is a (20)____________ as useless as a rod without a reel
To an (21)____________ ever-dropped, seasick yet still docked
Captain spotted napping with his first mate at the wheel,
floating (22)______________________ along, with no need to be strong
We keep our (23)______________________ (24)________ and when we pray we keep it short

I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever coming back

Oh, my God!

I do not exist we faithfully insist
while watching (25)________ the heavy ship of everything we knew
If ever you (26)________ near I'll hold up (27)________ a mirror
Lord, I could never (28)________ you anything as beautiful as You

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