Robyn Hitch***** - Ghost Ship Lyrics
The ghost ship haunts the seaShe'll come back and marry meThe rust is where her heart should be tonightHer face is where her fingers were tonightA glassy chequered engine roomThe speechless silence of the tombThe manuscripts inside the womb unfurlA girlTranslucent as a jellyfishThat palpitates upon a dishShe stings you with her gently falling curlAnd sinking in the waters green tonightI wonder where my lover's been tonightThe ghost ship changes tackAnd stands becalmed; her sails are slackThe cabinboy lies on his back and sighsThe mayonnaise is oozing down his thighsThe bubbles rising from the deepWhere deadmen sing themselves to sleepFrom oak and coral they do seep to say"OkayYou throw open my future like a chartSee through my skin; into my heartThat flutters in my ribcage like a bird."And the ghost ship sails on into someone's lifeThe air from bottles forms intoThe skeletons of all the crewIn white they dance against the blue and wailTheir curling bodies flail around the sailThe figurehead before the mastStares back into the golden pastAcross the wrinkled sea so vast she mournsForlornShe flutters round me like a mothThat beats against mosquito clothAnd tries to eat her way into my dreamsAnd sinking in the waters green tonightI wonder where my love has been tonightThe melons on the riverbankAre bulging through decaying planksTheir beauty is so warm and dank and lightThe captain wears a headless grin tonightAnd silhouetted on the blueThe cook, the mate, the captain, tooThey know not where or why or what they do at allThey fallLike masonry in the abyssThat opens every time we kissI hear their laughter echo round the bayAnd the ghost ship sails on into someone's life
