Man O' War
Channel: Jim Paul
Date: 2012-08-30

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Lyrics
All of my friends are gone
TO be a gnarled pile
Of dried up twigs

The latest signs go hanging on the clear

Now my days are long
On a crooked while
In bathing streams

The gaze of heaven gave them out
How can we be happy now?

Given time these hands will teach themselves to beg

I know I won't be satisfied at all
If this victory is less than total
Fields go down
The river drowns in mud

Midday gathering on the summit
They're passing out the final words

I have come to rely on the deep
unforgivable harmonies

of hungry hungry hungry hunger
Lift and bow, grovel down

Shove off
Keep steady
Little head take heed of me
Stay not
Together
You'll lose your thoughts so easily
A Man o' war
Is coming
The out-gunner's gonna take it all
Cold rocks
My brother
Another level they can drain you on

They'll go running out
Black sails, strangers
If you will allow
They'll run you through
For the holy line
For the curving spine
For their distant home
Don't take their word for it