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Two Years Before The Mast
Astronautalis

Two years spent before the mast

And no one knows the secrets that we're hiding

If word got loose, you'd face the lash

And thirteen loops would hold me fast and silent

Things are not always as they seem to be

Outside us

The Devil got poor Persephone

But they can't take

They can't take you from me

They can't take you from me

Can't take you from me

Can't take you from me


Mr. Jones done made a mistake, it's all business

These's worse things than the watery grave with Poricthys.

I found her behind a barrel of grain in the hold, listless

A hollow, half hatter, dismayed, frayed princess.

But I guess I've gone soft in my age, they call it instinct

The rebels get the devil to pay or cat kissing the gunner's daughter.

I know I oughta send her to the brig

But even strong knots give in still water and calm winds.

And all things aren't what they seem to be in

That Small wall separating Earth from Eden

One rib did give Eve her meaning

But one snip might could keep a secret

With her short hair there and a change of clothing

Fit right in and work soaking oakum

And in four fortnights she'll unload with the opium,

And she just might slip by buffer and bosun.


Two years spent before the mast

And no one knows the secrets that we're hiding

If word got loose, you'd face the lash

And thirteen loops would hold me fast and silent

Things are not always as they seem to be

Outside us

Devil got poor Persephone

But they can't take

They can't take you from me


With every snip of the shears

A fist of her hair

Took to the air handsomely

Till it floated down among the clouds

Reflected on the glassy sea

When the winds disappeared

The crew stripped almost bare

And bathed in a transfixed sea

And all things are what they seem to be

As she floated next to me

Just out of reach


There is no knot so steadfast

It won't go broke in the middle of monsoons

You don't show, waiting, watching

Her wet lips and clothes soaked through

Blinded mind to the red sky and oxide clouds

Living just as a phasmid

Amidst lines and booms

Coupled up with abstinence and stolen looks

We broke our pledge against the bulkhead

And the world pitch poled.


Now Mr. Jones was a poor soul who walked into a tempest

Endless tying two poor fools.

A victim of the whipping when head sail floats footloose...

The best men can end when a storm rolls through

So we paid our keep

For the sin of a reckless dream

In the seam where secrets sleep

Between me, her, the Devil and the deep blue sea


Two years spent before the mast

And no one knows the secrets that we're hiding

If word got loose, you'd face the lash

And thirteen loops would hold me fast and silent

Things are not always as they seem to be

Outside us

Devil got poor Persephone

But they can't take

They can't take you from me

They can't take you from me

Can't take you from me

Can't take you from me


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