Ship Of Fools - Dr. Strangely Strange

Way of an eagle in the air

The way of a serpent upon a rock

The way of a ship in the midst of the sea

Way of a man with a maid

The way of a man with a maid

Chains of strength, chains of fear

Marking words in Satan?

s ear

The manger whips, the nursemaid lies

Chains that launch the ship of sighs

Child sun, baby moon

Pass a failed hope or a failed love soon

Windward burning boats (ah ship of fools)

Slitting throats

Hopeless and gazing

Child head, baby brain

On the slipway, bluffed again

Your tide is out, your blinds, (ah ship of fools)

Your blinds are drawn

Sailor fools are born

Sound the foghorn horns

Screaming siren scorns

Petrify the human pawns

Child deranged, galactic fault

The arc lights burned, the squadrons halt

Baby breathes the gale and tastes the salt

Alarmed and cowering

Child tenor, baby crooner

Tripping double time onboard the schooner

Blows the whistle, sucks (ah ship of fools)

Sucks the Crisis pipe

For a lifelong passage

Sound the foghorn horns

Screaming siren scorns

Petrify the human pawns

Child skipper, baby mate

Ship of fools becomes the ship of fate

While gospel singers cool, (ah ship of fools)

Cool the panic struck

Forced and bitter luck

Child cry, baby sleep

My cabin is yesterday, my crater deep

On deck the captain scans, (ah ship of fools)

Scans the x-ray card

We need a metal surgeon

Sound the foghorn horns

Screaming siren scorns

Petrify the human pawns

Child steals, baby seeks

Travels miles and lifeless weeks

And turns the coverlet and shakes, (ah ship of fools)

And shakes the sheets

They?

re only learning

Child chokes, baby dies

Fetid rumors, human cries

Transparent fighters (ah ship of fools)

Fly the transient skies

A hard coming we had and a harder going