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Bound East for Cardiff Lyrics by John Tams

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Fair wind and a light to guide me by
A thousand miles of ocean and a million years of sky
It's the promise of the poet - it's the storyteller's lie
Nothing's ever how it seems to be
Can you stay alive and still be lost at sea
I used to care now I don't give a damn
I know every bar and brothel from Argentina to Japan
I've fought my way across every bay and they tell me once that I killed a man
Well maybe it was either him or me
You could say that I saved him from the sea
And this sailor lifе's not much to cry 'bout the leaving
Travelling thе world around
Trying to get out of sailor town
Another drink - another bar-room brawl
Then you're too drunk to stand but not drunk enough to fall
All the faces and the places they seem the same
Like wreckage on the shoreline we play the loser's game
And all my pay it just drains away I'll never get back home again
Why are the dice all loaded against me
Never chance your luck against the sea
And this sailor life's not much to cry 'bout the leaving
Travelling the world around
Trying to get out of sailor town
Another drink - another bar-room brawl
Then you're too drunk to stand but not drunk enough to fall
One more trip and then I'll take my pay
And I'll go back home and make believe I've never been away
I'll look for work and hope someone might still want me to stay
One last drink and then I'm on my own
Still trying to make the long voyage home
And this sailor life's not much to cry 'bout the leaving
Travelling the world around
Trying to get out of sailor town
Another drink - another bar-room brawl
Then you're too drunk to stand but not drunk enough to fall
You're not drunk enough
You're not drunk enough
You're not drunk enough...
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John Tams

John Tams

About “Bound East for Cardiff” by John Tams

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"Bound East for Cardiff" appears on "Home".

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