The Boat-Maker

from (Not a)Live in 1984 by The Max Julius

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Carryin me back from the shore again –
Every damn time my ship goes down!
How’m I s’posed to get all the way to Spain?
One on the sea is worth ten aground

Livin on a cliff above a loneliness
You’re just one step from the rocks and reeds.
When the wind blows it’ll whisper this:
Every dyin thing must go with me.

Maybe when the rent’s all paid we’ll live again
I’ll give it up to ya like an offering

It’s an offering! Won’t ya take it from me?

Just a crown between a king and a fool.
It’s right to give praise where it’s due.
I’ll drown trying to drink up to you

Over in the hills is a ringin bell
Carryin the song of the human age.
Everything I own I built myself,
Everything that’s broke I broke today.

Lyin’ in the dust is a dusty man –
Image in the flesh of some good advice.
Offer him a hand and he’ll pull ya in.
Anything that can’t be blood is ice.

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from (Not a)Live in 1984, released February 10, 2013

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