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The Ship'Sah Going Down, Me Mates

from ShiPPe by Captain Verbese

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The Ship’Sah Going Down, Me Mates

He was, but discovers that those that don’t sing folk songs recite poetry—could things get any worse?

They let us go; we fled by dusty road, slowly the city sounds began to fade, little by little until they were no more. Little by little.
It was too far to travel alone so we walked with old crones and a caravan that moaned and groaned with the sound of its engines and its warnings were played as instruments, but now and then the engines and warnings would fade so that we could listen to the discussions and warnings of the poets and intellectuals as they readied their strange mechanical instruments for discussion of what would be, what was, and what could...

“Why not live?
The catbird shrilled!
And give a guy a chance!
For soon the moon will sing a tune and I'll be left to dance.
Well, strangers have left on longer trains before.
Yes, shake and shout and cause a spout to be a mockery!
Exist inside a lemon drop and cause no word to be.
If after all this oleo a speck of dust exists,
We'll set aside a common tide 'twixt friend and who he's kissed.”

“He thought the end was overdue, but daybroke him instead,
And consequently what he read was never what he said.
‘And don't you never,’
Said the ever Enigmatic Foe,
‘Lose your cool, or after school,
They'll find me home in bed.’
What hoe you rake, you fake a taking and a mating moo;
Confuse to lose and quake to break are simple rules to you.
Why send a curly head to bed and know her secrets too?”

“Glue it down you dripping clown, and be not busy, too;
If a needy, if a seedy lets him come on through.
Keys are not thrust open spores, and neither is a broken store!
There are clothes that haven't been worn,
Feet that haven't been shorn,
There's causes that haven't been given a principle.
Need I say more?”

“The soft spoken edge was a close fit
With the warped open cracks so many.”

“The quick brain drained the main
And the ships a goin' down me mates,
The ship she's a goin' down.
The ship' she's a goin' down.”

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from ShiPPe, released September 15, 2012
Lyrics by The Residents, music re-interpreted by Captain Verbese.

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