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The Man Who Sailed Around His SoulThe man who sailed around his soulFrom 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 himself revealed ugly and cold And the sirens that sing By your nose with it's ring They'll drag you in for your sins Now he sits all alone And there'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 jelly fish 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'd found the treasure he'd been seeking The man who sailed around his soul The man who sailed around his soul Not sorry for the man who sailed around his soul The man who sailed around his soul The man who sailed Round his soul The man who sailed Round his soul The man who sailed around his soul East to west from pole to pole The man who walked across his heart Doomed to journey to the start The man who sailed around his soul The man who sailed around his soul Do do do do do do do Do do do do do do do Do do do do do do do Do do do do Round his soul |