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You caught me making eyes with the other boat men's wifes and heard me laughing louder at the jokes told by their daughters I'd set my coarse for land but you'd well understand it takes a steady hand to navigate adulteress waters the propeller's spinning blades held acquaintance with the waves but theres mistakes I've made no rowing could outrun the cloth low on the mast like to say I've got no past but I'm nonetheless the librarian and secretary's son with tarnish on my brass and mildew on my glass I've never want someone so crass to want someone like me but a few leagues of the shore i bit a flashing lure but i assure you it was not what i expected it to be I still taste its kiss that dull hook in my lip a memory as useless as a rod with out a reel to an anchor ever drop sea-sick yet still docked captain spotted napping with his first mat at the floating forgetfully along we have no need to be strong we keep our confessions long but when we pray we keep them short I drank a thimble full of fire I'm not ever coming back... ..