My Lover was a Sailor

by Kray Van Kirk

Legal Notice: You are free to reproduce, distribute, perform, record, and otherwise disseminate this work in any form or media, electronic or otherwise, provided that this notice is preserved in its entirety and provided that no monies are exchanged. To make commercial use of this work, including derivatives, please contact: kvk@krayvankirk.com.

Standard tuning

My lover was a sailor
Slept in the belly of cold steel ships
my lover was a sailor no harbor could she find
Held in place by angled lines,
two ahead, none behind
forgotten by her shipmates
ghosts upon the sand

My lover was a sailor
She sleeps in the belly of nightmare dreams
my lover was a sailor no harbor can she find
Ahab's gaze and wooden leg,
St. Elmo's fire, in her head,
she takes the night watch
upon the razor's edge

My lover was a sailor
Sails upon a stormy sea
My lover was a sailor
no harbor could she find
Stares at shadows on the walls,
speak to them, and haunts the halls
looking for a shadows ghost to keep her company

She's going 'round again
Sailor with a broken wheel
All her roads lead to Rome
put her on an even keel
down, down down...

My lover is a sailor...
My lover cries alone at night...
My lover sinks beneath the waves...
My lover lives by shadowed candle twilight...