Sea Shanty

Lyrics

Repair the hull, replace the sails The monkey wrestles with the ghost And a thousand little pleasures form a thin veneer Over lack of hope The captain was rightly murdered by the crew But now they don't know what to do Drifting on the murky Sargasso of the everyday Work and slave and skimp and save And you can buy yourself a bigger cage And a thousand little cruelties we agree to pretend to ignore The ghost has got the monkey by the tail And all they both can do is wail And you and I go drifting by the abandoned vessels of the everyday