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I Used To Be A Sailor
Chapman Tracy

Chapman Tracy

Matters Of The Heart

I Used To Be A Sailor

I used to be a sailor

Who sailed across the seas

But now I'm just an island

Since they took my boat away from me

Oh no



I don't like being stationary

I like the rocky wavy motions of the sea

I sit and rot behind these padded walls

Hoping one day they'll fall

And set me free



He wrote his epitaph

He wrote his eulogy

It said I think that I can die now

For my true love won't come for me

Oh no



I don't like being stationary

I like the rocky wavy motions of the sea


I sit and rot behind these padded walls

Hoping one day they'll fall

And set me free



I used to be a sailor

Who sailed across the seas

But now I'm just an island

Since they took my boat away from me

Oh no



I don't like being stationary

I like the rocky wavy motions of the sea

I sit and rot behind these padded walls

Hoping one day they'll fall

And set me free



Set me free

Set me free

Set me free


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