"Bail My Boat" lyrics - DAVID WILCOX

There's a leak in the teak
In the cracks between the boards
Where a little bit of ocean seeps
It's the same in my brain
Just a trickle of the pain
Comes to sink me when I'm feeling sane I can't complain
I used to be the fool who would raise his head to blame the rain

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It won't help to rage at the rainstorm
That's not gonna keep me afoat
What I need is just to bail my boat

Now I know, how it goes
There are sailors who survive and there's
Finer ones that slip below - all alone.
I'm afraid - How I'm made, Is just a bit thin-skinned when
The hurricane is closing in Same old spin
It gets me twisted till I think I will never find a way to win

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If I'm there In despair
Getting pounded by the waves in
The up and down of world affairs Unprepared
The sea is gonna crash but it doesn't have to take me there

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