Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians - The Ghost Ship lyrics

The ghost ship haunts the sea She'll come back and marry me The rust is where her heart should be tonight Her face is where her fingers were tonight A gla**y chequered engine room The speechless silence of the tomb The man*scripts inside the womb unfurl A girl Translucent as a jellyfish That palpitates upon a dish She stings you with her gently falling curl And sinking in the waters green tonight I wonder where my lover's been tonight The ghost ship changes tack And stands becalmed; her sails are slack The cabinboy lies on his back and sighs The mayonnaise is oozing down his thighs The bubbles rising from the deep Where deadmen sing themselves to sleep From oak and coral they do seep to say "Okay You throw open my future like a chart See through my skin; into my heart That flutters in my ribcage like a bird." And the ghost ship sails on into someone's life The air from bottles forms into The skeletons of all the crew In white they dance against the blue and wail Their curling bodies flail around the sail The figurehead before the mast Stares back into the golden past Across the wrinkled sea so vast she mourns Forlorn She flutters round me like a moth That beats against mosquito cloth And tries to eat her way into my dreams And sinking in the waters green tonight I wonder where my love has been tonight The melons on the riverbank Are bulging through decaying planks Their beauty is so warm and dank and light The captain wears a headless grin tonight And silhouetted on the blue The cook, the mate, the captain, too They know not where or why or what they do at all They fall Like masonry in the abyss That opens every time we kiss I hear their laughter echo round the bay And the ghost ship sails on into someone's life