Ship and Anchor

Ship and Anchor
The Scrips / Brad Wofford or band collaborator; confirm final songwriter split before publication
Rights: scrips-original-needs-owner-confirmation

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Verse:
I went on the ocean
I went on the sea
I went chasing a
nameless girl
who was not chasing me

Had I foreseen the future
what vile and darkened thought
Would I have set my mind so firm,
abandoned what I sought

Chorus:
Far out to sea came a rising storm,
with clouds blacker than night;
Close under turbulent whitecaps a shadow
reflecting electrical light.

Verse:
Without name or mention,
in shadows did she hide-
Once I followed and twice I ran and three times when I lied.
Take me back, my darling dear,
forgive my flee from home,
A nameless want divined a face
to lure and to cheat and to scorch and to eat my soul.

Chorus:
Swallowed whole by the serpent,
long thought to be no more;
Thirty-nine days in the belly
and twenty-four hours till the shore.

Bridge:
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Verse:
I went on the ocean,
I went on the sea;
I was wrecked before I left,
and wrecked is how I'll be.

Like Jonah I was taken,
on word, on will, from high;
And here I'll be unknown and lost-
Unknown until I die.

Chorus:
Far out to sea came a rising storm,
with clouds blacker than night;
Close under turbulent whitecaps a shadow
reflecting electrical light.

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