Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul, artist - XTC.
Date of issue: 26.10.1986
Song language: English
The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul |
The man who sailed around his soul |
From East to West, from pole to pole |
With ego as his drunken captain |
Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold |
The man who walked across his heart |
Who took no compass, guide or chart |
To rope and tar his blood congealed |
When he found his self revealed ugly and cold |
And the Sirens that sing |
By your nose with its ring |
They’ll drag you in |
For your sins |
Now he sits all alone |
And it’s no place like home |
It’s empty skin |
A bag to keep life’s souvenirs in |
The man who sailed around his soul |
The man who sailed around his soul |
The man who sailed around his soul |
Came back again to find a hole |
Where once he thought compassion and the truth |
Had laid to warm his freezing carcass on return |
The man who walked across his heart |
Was doomed to journey to the start |
Of every love affair he’d broken |
All the lies he’d ever spoken |
Tattooed on his arm |
And the jellyfish stings |
Even angels with wings |
Who look too deep |
And dare to peep |
Now he sits all alone |
Knowing flesh blood and bone |
Is everything |
He found the treasure he’d been seeking |
The man who sailed around his soul |