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Christopher Behind the 8​-​Ball

from 12 steppers and dead junkies (Part 1 of "The Drug Years") by Paul Roessler

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Christopher Behind the 8-ball

When past panic’s stormy capes
I sailed into the nether shoals
Lo, beneath the scrutiny
Of the sailors long gone down before
“Abandon ship! Abandon ship!
They cried to me “all hope is lost!”

On, sail on, have faith the world is round
And no one here will be there to care
If it should prove that I am wrong.

The Tropic of Delirium
The seagull sings and mermaids strum
A symphony of seashell strings
Crystal gin and pirate rum
I almost wound up on the rocks
But spied in time the drunken sun

On, sail on, have faith the world is round
And no one here will be there to care
If it should prove that I am wrong.

The sea becalmed like a looking glass
Playing craps we sat still fast
And mumbly-peg with the captain’s leg
Man, he looks like a fillet
I think we might be sorry yet, boys
Everyone place your last bets

On, sail on, have faith the world is round
And no one here will be there to care
If it should prove that I am wrong.

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from 12 steppers and dead junkies (Part 1 of "The Drug Years"), released February 21, 2021
Words music and instruments by Paul Roessler

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