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the sailor's song

from asifyouwerethesea by Art Of Flying

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th' sailor leads us through the liquid bamboo light
music echoes in my ears
an old man appears in the water warning all:
"you eat the cow yr eating fear."

you disappeared in the diag late one night
we looked & looked for you for hours
the police wanted to know everybody's name
I said my name was 'purple flowers.'

it was all so spirally & everything was so new
you see that I've forgotten what was
me & what was you
blow home on the wind boys!
blow home on the wind!

finding ourselves in the music machine
five bands for only five dollars
fucking amazing they can sing & play so well
going home to study yr 'toots' records.

it was all so spirally...

I wonder if I told you everything
I wonder if I even tried
staying up for years in the O.C. coastal haze
where yr not supposed to lie.

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from asifyouwerethesea, released August 24, 2005

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