Sea Stories

歌詞

Basic is just like Papaw said, "Keep your mouth shut and you'll be fine" Just another enlisted egg in the bowl for Uncle Sam's beater When you get to Dam Neck you'll hear a voice in your head Saying "My life's no longer mine" They'll have you running with some SAD/SOG, BMF sin eaters Setting out on the high seas feels just like being born But that first port call in Thailand feels like a pollywog turning nineteen They got King Cobras fighting in boxing rings And all the angels play Connect Four Seems like a sailor's paradise but it turns out to be a bad dream Hit the ground running in Tokyo, from Kawasaki to Ebisu Yokosuka, Yokohama, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Roppongi & Harajuku On to Busan, Pohang, Pattaya to Phuket, Singapore to Kuala Lumpur Seeing damn near the whole damn world from the inside of a bar I got sea stories and they're all true They might seem a little bit far-fetched But why would I lie to you Memories in ink forever stained I still got the salt running through my veins Oh I got sea stories and my shellback too Sometimes sirens can send a ship off course Horizon gets so hazy Maybe get high and play a little Goldeneye on that ol' 64 And if you get sick and can't manage to kick And get yourself kicked out of the Navy And spend the next year trying to score From a futon life raft on the floor And the next fifteen trying to figure out what the hell you did that for But flying high beats dying for lies in a politician's war