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Captain's Song (Words of Wisdom)

from Special Robot by Mitchell Thompson

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There once was a man who lived out at sea,
And nobody questioned why,
He lived all alone, the ship was his home,
The fish were in rampant supply,
And then one day the albatross came,
Gave the sailor his gold, just gave it away.
When he reached the bank,
The ship finally sank from the weight,

There once was a man who lived on the land,
He never quite learned how to swim,
The fish they would laugh as they scuttled past,
And show off to make fun of him,
And then one day the ocean bed caved,
And the fish they all died and whirled far away,
But the man felt their pain,
As he wished for the rain to refill the ocean,

There once were two men who never quite met,
But they changed each other's lives,
The lesson is this: both extremes exist,
And they make each other die,

Because one day:

(The sailor he prayed with the fish all gone,
He had nothing to eat,
So he ate the albatross,
And sadly accepted defeat)
(He died inside, And lost his pride)

(The guilt made him pay,
And the man on the land,
He got out his knife
Couldn't take the pain,
But he could take his own life)
(Out with the tide, Suicide)

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from Special Robot, released September 9, 2015

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Mitchell Thompson San Francisco, California

Solo artist/songwriter, working on various forms of rock and folk, mainly in the form of concept albums.

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