Sea Shanty - Quasi

Repair the hull, replace the sails

The monkey wrestles with the ghost

And a thousand little pleasures form a thin veneer

Over lack of hope

The captain was rightly murdered by the crew

But now they don’t know what to do

Drifting on the murky Sargasso of the everyday

Work and slave and skimp and save

And you can buy yourself a bigger cage

And a thousand little cruelties we agree to pretend to ignore

The ghost has got the monkey by the tail

And all they both can do is wail

And you and I go drifting by the abandoned vessels of the everyday