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Sugar Boats

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Sugar Boats

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This rock of ours is just some big mistake

And we will never know just where we go

Or where we have came from

These veins of mine are now some sort of fuse

And when they light up and my mind blows up

My heart is amused so

This heart of mine is just some sort of map

That doesn't care at all or worry about where the hell you're at

But you're right there

Well, I've been meaning to dismiss you

Yeah I have some plans to dismiss you

So stand by, by, by, by, bye-bye

Wave bye, sugar boats!

As soon as you paint every last grain of sand

As you soon as you paint every star

In the sky, sky, sky, sky, sky, sky

Wave bye, sugar boats!

Well, I’m swatting at mosquitoes as they’re orbiting me

I'm orbiting the sun and this goes on and on and on, you see

This heart of mine is just some broke machine

And when it gets a-goin', and it often gets goin'

It starts blowin' steam

Here we go again!

This rock of ours is just some big mistake

And we will never know just where we go

Or where we have came from

This watch of mine is like some sort of void

Cause when I look in, and I shouldn't look in

I, I see it swallow my time

Oh no, there it goes!

I ain’t getting on no fast plane

Hell, I ain’t getting on no stuffy train

Sugar boats on the Atlantic are fine

The sugar boats, they're just fine

I'll stand on the deck so you could see

I'll stand on the deck you could wave bye, bye, bye, bye

Here's the ghost that goes and waves bye, bye, bye, bye

I'm the ghost that goes and waves bye, bye, bye

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