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To Span Dark Waters On Torn Sails

from Nightshade Monsters by Coz the Shroom

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To span dark waters on torn sails

The storm never slacks
The waters are black
The creaky cracked deck
Twas a derelict

It is to Nineveh
There in my passage kept
But I am not a prophet
Tis only me who wept

These sails are shabby sheets
Torn in the dark and heat
Beneath a flashing sky
I see them break and fly

A storm on dark waters
I’ve never been cold
I’ve never been hotter

A scab on dead men’s faces
A cargo of disgraces
My heavy heart sinks deep
Where Dogfish flash their teeth

To span dark waters on torn sails, on torn sails

My will never slacks
Tis only stores I lack
While wind blows on my back
I’m never looking back

Forget old Nineveh
I’m heading for the shores
Of the edge of the world
And the cosmic ocean

These sails are like this meat
Outworn, but not my galley beat
And my speed will increase
Old Jonah is deceased

A storm on dark waters
The storm beneath my brow
It all that matters

A fire lights my wake
The sea is but a lake
My wandering heart at last
Can taste but triumph

To span dark waters on torn sails, on torn sails

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from Nightshade Monsters, released November 29, 2018

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Coz the Shroom New Mexico

NOW RETIRED TO BECOME A MONK AND FOLLOW THE TAO TE CHING.
Cassette artist since 1979, Former Austin punk rocker, (18 years in Austin Texas) independent recording artist, and part of the SUCKDOG circus from 1991 to 1998. long time performance artist, writer, and psychonaut. ... more

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