set sail tonight
let’s set sail tonight across this filthy concrete sea
sprawl out our ragged sails on rotten masts
the moon is squinting its sallow sickle of ill begotten light
pick pocketed from a sun that up and left
so its just you and me
forsaken, forgotten and too far gone
oh!
here come the drums
one hundred thousand begrimed and bitten hands
beating
out of time and out of sorts
stamping out their rhythm with my snapped and broken bones
there’s a hole in your pocket
and a hole in your chest and
you are leaking colours while you sway by the side of the road
set sail tonight, set sail tonight
make me all the promises you cant keep
sell me shiny things that don’t belong to you
carve an X to mark this spot and spare no tears of sympathy
just take a teaspoon of this and a teaspoon of that
and let it all swirl out into the river
slippery little ribbons that wrap around and choke us
if all I can speak is poison
and all you can hear are lies
we can dance in spite of our sawn off limbs
and step to the beat of the grit and the blood
pounding loud in our rusted metal chests
side step, cross step, pull, pull each other apart
