1.Shark Fin Blues
Standing on the deck watching my shadow stretch
The sun pours my shadow upon the deck
The waters licking round my ankles now
There ain't no sunshine way way down
I see the sharks out in the water like slicks of ink
Well, there's one there bigger than a submarine
As he circles I look in his eye
I see Jonah in his belly by the campfire light
See the albatross up in the windy lofts
He gets to beating his wings while he sleeps it off
I hear the jettisoned cries from his dreams unkind
Gets to whippin' my ears like a riding crop
The captain once as able as a fink dandy
He's now laid up in the galley like a dried out mink
He's laying dying of thirst and he says or I think
Well, we're gonna be alone from here on in
Well you are all my brothers, and you have been kind
But what were you expecting to find？
Now your eyes turn inwards, countenance turns blank
And I'm floating away on a barrel of pain
It looks like nothing but the sea and sky remain
I sing na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
A harpoon's shaft is short and wide
A grappling hook's is cracked and dry
I said, why don't you get down in the sea
Turn the water red like you want to be？
Cause if I cry another tear I'll be turned to dust
No the sharks won't get me they don't feel loss
Just keep one eye on the horizon man, you best not blink
They're coming fin by fin until the whole boat sinks
Fin by fin
Fin by fin
Fin by fin by fin by fin
2.Baby Squared
I said, why d'you people such an ugly place？
I said that anyone would think you came from outer space
She held her skin to yours, when they brought you out
You've ruined all that she had left, but ain't that obvious now
Babe, babe, babe, you can't never die
Your daddy's gonna buy you a big black ride
See the bare legged children by the side of the road
I get to feeling so low low low low low, and Lord, I know not
why!
I lived in the country but I had to leave
I went down, lived by the sea side in the lap of ease
It was like salt in my wounds, man I won't ever be free
Though alone drunk on a beach ain't such a bad way to be
Babe, babe, babe, you can't never die
Your daddy's gonna buy you a big black ride
See the bare legged children by the side of the road
I get to feeling so low low low low low, and Lord, I know not
why!
I said, why d'you people such an ugly place？
I said that anyone would think you came from outer space
She held her skin to yours, when they brought you out
You've ruined all that she had left, but ain't that obvious now
Babe, babe, babe, you can't never die
Your daddy's gonna buy you a big black ride
See the bare legged children by the side of the road
I get to feeling so low low low low low, and Lord, I know not
why!
3.The Best You Can Believe In
I ain't often one
Who'd be having a crisis in faith
Though I would not be the one
That you'd come asking anyway
I ain't no big believer
In the virtues of belief
Though I would not say that outside looking
Out's a virtue either
And you may...
You may think your right
You may think that you have
But see you have not man
It is all a waste of time
Na, nah nah...
I ain't philistine, friend or ally
I ain't no one's fools 'cept mine
I ain't big on talk of getting on
Or tanning someone's hide
If anything, you come to be
Thus bound to go sometime
Yeah, you can pipe me up your chimney
I was born of clear blue skies
To a white skinned girl with pale blue eyes
Na, nah nah...
I see a million injured eyeballs
Staring into the throat
And they're gutting one another with solicitous joy
And feeding it scraps with a frenzied devotion
A burning river of the worst men have
Is the best you can believe in
Let it balm you, then enbalm you
And you might float your body down it in peace
Aand I'll be fine
Up there on the bank
With my flashlight
In a pair of pig skin tights!
4.Locust
Georgie, i can't stop drinking
Seems like every time i try i can't stop thinking
Georgie, when i was a boy
I would stand there in the shade
Of a wedding cake hotel doorway
Watching sister with her liquor in a jar
Talk to older boys in cars.
Ether was the town where i was born
They pulled iron from the ground
And knife wounds from the port
They built a prison and it tempered in the sun
It rose up off a plateau like the last tooth in a gum
You went there by train and you would never be the same.
They made the blacks live outside of town
The weekend come they'd tear the whole place down
Chinese came without weekends at all
And the whites complained the pay was better
Shooting them in the war
Home may be where the calm blinds
but i could see that they weren't lying.
My first girls old man was in a later war
He drank like a motherfucker, now i know what for
She took my van, put louie in the jack
Left a suicide not and i've got him to thank for that
And he can thank our statesmen hosts
Although his chances are remote
Georgie, i can't stop drinking
Seems like every time i try i can't stop thinking
Georgie, when i was a boy
I would stand there in the shade
Of a wedding cake hotel doorway
Watching sister with her liquor in a jar
Talk to older boys in cars.
5.You Really Don't Care
6.Sitting On The Edge Of The Bed Cryin'
I'm sitting on the edge of the bed cryin'
I'm sitting on the edge of the bed cryin'
I sat staring at my toes, how am I meant to know
That someone's waiting for me in the dark
Somewhere outside is a doggy barking
I'm sitting on the edge of the bed cryin'
I'm sitting on the edge of the bed cryin'
All you can possibly know is the way things are
Sometimes that way ain't clear
Don't make it no less real
Lord, I don't mind cryin'
It just can't help chances
Don't change nothing already done
As useless in advance
I'm sitting on the edge of the bed cryin'
I'm sitting on the edge of the bed cryin'
Was just trying get undressed, wasn't feeling my best
I got a girl layed on my bed
Lord, she knows me well, but she knows no dread
I'm sitting on the edge of the bed cryin'
I'm sitting on the edge of the bed cryin'
You can't never leave home but you can't get back
I got some friends there in the other room
Oh they know me well, but they know no wounds
Lord, I don't mind cryin'
It just can't help chances
Don't change nothing already done
As useless in advance
I say what're you cryin' for man
Your free to go
You get to walk forever
From door to door to door
7.The Freedom In The Loot
8.Another Rousing Chorus You Idiots!!!
9.This Time
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