OH.. CAPTAIN....

**OH.. CAPTAIN....** is the 7th track on S. Reidy's 4th full length, SECRET ALBUM. The title is reference to a line from the 1989 film Dead Poets Society.

## Lyrics

```
My name is S. Reidy and I'm here to say
I love Cocoa Pebbles in a major way

Slowly but surely I’ll be fine but lately patients is a fail mission
Split decisions leave me frozen from the waist down
My hearts small, my heads loud
I’ve fallen short of fallen short enough to make a man of cowards
My expectations of my self will be the death of me (death of me)
Do they indulge in my endeavors? Cuz they better be
What is mental anguish if it’s not a one way ticket to the top?
Risk a biscuit don’t get caught
How long can pasty solemn sissy songs pay the bills for?
Guess I’ll see this therapy’s essentially why I’m here still
Narrowly carefully over sharing these conclusions
Make it easy on the ears, remind yourself you can do this
Repeat

I’ll be your captain for the chorus
Strap in tight, close your eyes, better bumpy ride than boredom
You’ll be fine
And you’ll be safe
And you’ll be fine
And you’ll be safe
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I’ll be your captain for this ride
You don’t have the time to bide
Cuz either way you’re gonna die
Plus, you’ll fine fine
And you’ll be safe
And you’ll be fine
And you’ll be safe

Here’s a poem about a thing I saw one time
A man is walking down the street, he’s looking beaten down by life
And there’s a spider on the ground, a spider outside
I’m on a coffee shop patio, it’s 2:45
When out the blue this man gets angry and starts yelling at the bug
“What is wrong with you, you demon haven’t you not taken enough from me?
Crawling on the grass, and you don’t ask me how it’s tough to be
Alone in this dark world you think that’s how it’s supposed to be?”
This when on for awhile, flames were shooting out his mouth
Yelling bad words and slurs all of which I’m leaving out
But at the end of it all he stomps the spider out of spite
Ripped apart all is his legs, hocked a loog and yell "good night!"
Wow, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t staring
Eventually realized that, I hoped he wouldn’t care
But then he yelled across the road “what are you looking at”?
He started to walking towards me, angrily, then something happened
What I saw with my two eyes is something I could not make up
He takes a couple strides and then gets smacked up by a bus
It’s takes like 45 minutes for some help to arrive
They lift him off the ground and gets taken for a ride
True story, it felt like Shakespeare in the park
An omen or a token of some wisdom to embark
I think about it daily, all the meaning it evokes
Was it profound or was it dumb? I think a little bit of both

```

## References

* Pebbles are an American brand of breakfast cereal.
* "Slowly but surely I'll be fine" is reference to Sicko Mode.
* Shakespeare in the Park is a trend of Shakespeare plays being preformed in parks.

## Live Performances

* 07/28/2023 - Grey Owl Coffee (Live Debut)
* 08/07/2023 - Fuji Mountain Anime
* 09/08/2023 - Skate the Plaza

## Sources

1. ↑ https://genius.com/S-reidy-oh-captain-lyrics
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebbles\_(cereal)
3. ↑ https://genius.com/S-reidy-sicko-mode-lyrics
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare\_in\_the\_Park\_festivals
5. ↑ https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/s-reidy/2023/gray-owl-coffee-norman-ok-1ba43da0.html
6. ↑ https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/s-reidy/2023/fuji-mountain-anime-pueblo-co-33aee0d9.html
7. ↑ https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/s-reidy/2023/plaza-district-okc-oklahoma-city-ok-5ba30750.html