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letra de sailortown (one more dance and then) - matthew dechant

i stepped off the boat at 5 bells into the last dog
and stepped into that too long steeped sailortown row
said goodbye to my mates, sang a song or three
i had two things on my mind- finding a bottle of whiskey and new shoelaces
i walked into the first bar i see and standing there in front of me
is the same face i’ve seen in 18 countries and 4 continents
the details are different but details are a dime a dozen
and i know that face when i see it- it’s the face of transience and it’s the only face i know

after i got my drink and the drink got me
i waltzed and jigged into the hand of crimp i know and love
of course i’d never met this man before, but he’d met me a hundred times o’er
i went round and took his pound and his hand i was shaking
tomorrow- wait that’s not right, no, tomorrow morn will be more of the same
and then a little more of the same, and then i’m headed out again but today i’m
squeezing all the life out of a lousy two-day pass
and then after that i’ll be gone like the crimp’s cigar

in the meantime i was passing time playing chess with a man from osaka
i don’t know how to play chess but he asked me and hasn’t called me out yet
so clearly i can’t be doing that bad
on the way back to the bar i passed the maritime sailors’ cathedral
just like the faces inside, this same building seems to follow me wherever i go
like old smoke on a new jacket
and just like that smoke, it’s slowly choking me
the here and the there and the there and the there
but it’s never quite where i’ll be tomorrow
and it’s certainly not where i was yesterday
and i hate that i like that
i’m leaving a part of my shoe behind everywhere i go and soon i’ll be barefoot in the way of god
there’s nowhere that i won’t have been
and nowhere that i won’t be
and that’s the way it must be for the likes of me
a permanent resident of sailortown

- matthew dechant

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