Sailors Lament
By Elizabeth Argall
Biography
There was a man
and he lived alone
trapped in his house with his walls of bone
and he said will someone help me out of here
once I had a key but now it is gone
and the air grows cold in this living tomb
and I wonder if I’ll ever see the light
and he cried and cried his salty tears
waiting for one to come along
and save him from his life
he said I’m a sailor far from home
but I’m looking for a mirror to call my own
so she can tell me who I am
he said I’m in a desert slowly burning
but I drown as I fall to my knees and I learn
that without you I am incomplete
and he cried and cried his salty tears
waiting for one to come along
and save him from his life
I told him words that haunt me still
was I right to hurt him cruelly
I smashed his reflections all to pieces
only real lives cast a shadow
you can cry and cry your lonely tears
I don’t have time to hear your song
and save you from your life.