My Captain

from Sleep Over by Cartesian Jetstream

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lyrics

Captain oh my captain, we're in for such a hammering
Please send for captains Hook & Cook & Kirk & Scott & Mainwaring
Captain oh my captain, must life be quite so hard?
Please send for captains Kidd & Bligh & Ahab & Pickard
Captain oh my captain, you’ve done all that you can
but here comes Captain Spaulding and surely he’s our man

For so long I never gave up
I harboured hope in a plastic cup
I buckled down and I soldiered on
But now I’m free, all hope is gone
So come with us we are the dispossessed
The lead soldiers bivouacked in your head
We’re Queen Victoria on the nod
And Moriarty running rings round the plod

Captain, do you see them, it is the Spanish fleet
And now here come the French, we’ll surely taste defeat
On the horizon I see Vikings and over there the Dutch
To starboard are Phoenicians, this really is too much
The captain didn’t speak a word, nor move his wooden head
If I didn’t know him better I’d swear that he was dead

For so long I never gave up
I harboured hope in a plastic cup
I buckled down and I soldiered on
But now I’m free, all hope is gone
I have built in adolescence
And I have the ring of truth
I weep pure vanilla essence
As if I were the sonic youth

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from Sleep Over, released September 30, 2013

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