Ship of Fools - Fucked Up

In the guts of a ship in the middle of the sea

Stands a ring for the rivals for everyone to see

They spar around the center of their own duality

The audience is full and pressed against the ropes

Chanting for blood of the loser of the bout

The fighters and their fears it symbolizes hope

They want to escape but there is no way out

Speaker and the spoke, the axle and the wheel

The teller and the tale, the flower and the bee

The sword and the steel, the beast and the yoke

The fish and the sea, the prisoner and the jail

Like God asking Abraham to kill his only son

He cries out for help, he stares at the sun

He never gets an answer when the day finally comes

When David fought Goliath he wasn’t bound to (?)

Now he’ll never hit his mark, his opponent makes the rules

He’s a servant of the story and the gallery confines

Driftin' on a sea of words, trapped on a ship of fools

Speaker and the spoke, the axle and the wheel

The teller and the tale, the flower and the bee

The sword and the steel, the beast and the yoke

The fish and the sea, the prisoner and the jail

Sinkin' on the ship of fools

Sinkin' on the ship of fools

Sinkin' on the ship of fools

Sinkin' on the ship of fools

You clamor for an outcome, a candid dénouement

The hunger for a resolution manifests the end

Concludes with ovation of the blood of your hands

He knows he couldn’t help her when she needed him the most

What he gave her won’t undo the one thing that he took

Like a vine around a flower, love in a fatal dose

His story won’t endure, losers never write the books

The speaker and the spoke, the axle and the wheel

The teller and the tale, the flower and the bee

The sword and the steel, the beast and the yoke

The fish and the sea, the prisoner and the jail

The fire and the smoke, the starved and the meal

The head and the tail, the nut from the tree

The wax and the seal, the dagger and the cloak

The loss and the grief, the hammer and the nail