Owen Pallett
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If I Were a Carp

If I Were a Carp lyrics by Owen Pallett. Heave ho, farewell to the quay! Merry sailors, sailors we! The horizon is our proscenium! Our dead will come to know...

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If I Were a Carp

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Heave ho, farewell to the quay!

Merry sailors, sailors we!

The horizon is our proscenium!

Our dead will come to know the sea

Our cook is a wanted man

A thousand thalers for each hand

Our captain lost his good sense

Driven by a lazarus' words

Have you not been told of Lazarus?

He felt the icy grip

Brought back by a morphine drip

He told the captain this:

Tragedy, tragedy! Death has you fooled!

No throne of bone, no terranean pool!

No scythe, no cowl, no skeleton

His greatest trophy is this myth

Every sailor, salmon, every carp

Will follow rivers to the source

Only the dead will know the course

Do you really want to know of the afterworld

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