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Nautical Man Lyrics by Paper Divers

2022

You're a reed in a glass
Shoulders curved by angel breath
If you're not gonna laugh
Let my words like a mist go

I cannot pretend
You're far away
I've nothing to say
Hey, hey

Lift the grid off the photo
I can't tell you what to see
I'm a nautical man
Writhing in the shallow waters

If you know what I mean you'll see
That I might die in the bogs of the hinterlands
Lungs all stretched through the foliage
Clustered branches

Will you tell me its easy
To come onto shore soon
To climb up the beach?

My mirage have I found you?
I'm only falling down
I only feel uneasy

I saw it crawling on the floor
A creature breathing from its pores
You can't pretend that you don't know
It's only you

"Shall we go on and gather on the surface
Where there's room among my kind?"
I'm a fool to believe in it
But I'm far too deep to go

I can't go back
The world is turning black
A vile curse
Everyone is going home

I can't pretend
It's only getting worse
Don't go without me

I can't pretend
It's only getting worse
Oh, worse

I can't pretend
We're only getting worse
Oh ho oh

Lift the grid off the photo
I can't tell you what to see
I'm a nautical man
Writhing in the shallow waters

Toss out your vinyl colours
Cause I don't understand
Why in the world you'd want to plaster pictures
All around your head

Is it a signal you're a cultured man?
You're only getting bolder with the times
You shift and roll
Cosmicomic lines
Calvino's just for clout
But tell me if I'm wrong
You're just another universe

About “Nautical Man” by Paper Divers

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