
Date of issue: 18.05.1992
Record label: Geffen
Song language: English
A Pirate Looks At Forty |
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call |
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall |
You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all |
Watched the men who rode you switch from sails to steam |
And in your belly you hold the treasures few have ever seen |
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream |
I go for younger women, I lived with several awhile |
Though I ran 'em away, they’d come back one day |
Still could manage to smile |
Just takes a while, just takes a while |
Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late |
The cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothin' to plunder |
I’m an over-forty victim of fate |
Arriving too late, arriving too late |
I’ve done a bit of smugglin', I’ve run my share of grass |
And I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast |
It’s never meant to last, it’s never meant to last |
And I have been drunk now for over two weeks |
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks |
But I got stop wishin', got to go fishin' |
Down to rock bottom again |
Just a few friends, just a few friends |
(instrumental) |
Mother, mother ocean, after all the years I’ve found |
My occupational hazard being my occupation’s just ain’t around |
I feel like I’ve drowned, gonna head uptown |
I feel like I’ve drowned, gonna head uptown |
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