Sea Shanty Lyrics - Quasi

Repair the hull, replace the sails. 

The monkey wrestles with the ghost 

And a thousand 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 cave 

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 he everyday.