Hello all.
I was reading
Vintage54's Scarecrow earlier today and the first two lines...
Casey waited all his life
For a ship that only sailed away
...struck a chord with me and led me to write the following.
Thanks, Vintage! You are inspiring!
All comments gratefully received...
Matt
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Sail Me Away from Myself
Verse 1Another day spent dreaming
Of who I could have been
In my youth,
Long ago.
Another pleasant-seeming
Evening sipping gin,
Blurring truth,
Thinking slow.
Another every week of never doing,
Of never feeling quite enough to do.
Another every month or year ensuing...
Another decade of the mud I'm wading through.
Chorus 1Oh sail me away from myself
To a land of storms and sunshine,
To a land where the people laugh and love and bleed.
Oh sail me away from myself,
From the quicksand beach I've built on,
From the shore where I stand and watch the world recede.
Oh sail me away from my grey and aimless need.
Verse 2And here I am, declining
An offer of a drink:
Thinking yes;
Saying no.
And here I am reclining,
But too awake to blink.
Can't suppress;
Can't let go.
And here I am entombed in my foundations -
A prisoner in the unlocked cage of me.
And through the walls I hear the conversations,
And shuffle to the door to turn the key.
Chorus 2Oh sail me away from myself
To a land of storms and sunshine,
To a land where the people laugh and love and bleed.
Oh sail me away from myself,
From the quicksand beach I've built on,
From the shore where I stand and watch the world recede.
Oh sail me away from my grey and aimless need.
[
Instrumental]
Chorus 3Oh sail me away from myself
On a ferry bound for nowhere,
On a river where souls are drowned and memories freed.
Oh sail me away from myself,
From a life not quite averted,
From a mind that begged and a heart that paid no heed.
Oh sail me away...
Sail me at last away...
Oh sail me away from my grey and aimless need.
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