'A Sea Chanty of Sorts' by Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos
do what you like
you don't have to be nice
just pour yourself a cup of coffee
leave any time
you don't have to be right
you've gotta live the best you know how
and if you love
well that should be enough
instead, it turns your joy into sorrow
and I can't breathe
with the dust of retreat
I'm choking on
the fumes of my wayward back
my woman lied
she was a witch in disguise
and she dressed her wounds
in sack cloth and ashes
the children weep
at their dead mother's feet
her husband's drunk
a wolf in a sheepskin coat
and when we kissed
it didn't feel poisonous
and when you cried
I dried off your blue eyes
she smiles at me
as she is falling asleep
says "we've gotta live
the best we know how to."
you don't have to be nice
just pour yourself a cup of coffee
leave any time
you don't have to be right
you've gotta live the best you know how
and if you love
well that should be enough
instead, it turns your joy into sorrow
and I can't breathe
with the dust of retreat
I'm choking on
the fumes of my wayward back
my woman lied
she was a witch in disguise
and she dressed her wounds
in sack cloth and ashes
the children weep
at their dead mother's feet
her husband's drunk
a wolf in a sheepskin coat
and when we kissed
it didn't feel poisonous
and when you cried
I dried off your blue eyes
she smiles at me
as she is falling asleep
says "we've gotta live
the best we know how to."