Jen Cass: Music
Pirate
Came out of dusk
With a swashbuckler’s grin
A taste of the ocean’s original sin
Followed the sextants to uncharted land
Set out to conquer
What you never could understand
You wondered what you would find
Safe in my dangerous mind
Treasure and pieces of eight
You saw the warnings too late
In the last light of evening
I shimmer like gold
But horrors you’d find
If these waters you trolled
I’m no safe harbor, no port in the storm
My arms draw you in, hold you tight
But they can’t keep you warm
I’ve got an ice-water heart
I have torn steel ships apart
Pity the man who is brave
He’ll find a watery grave
CHORUS:
You be the pirate and I’ll be the sea
I’ll roll and I’ll reel as you sail over me
And I may look calm but I’m raging inside
The others before you have died
It’s five in the morning
The sky’s burning red
Sailors take warning
Rough waters ahead
Still you stand by the bow
With a bottle to break
To christen the journey, this love
And the chances we take
You let the wind fill your sails
I summon doldrums and gales
You cut through me like a knife
But I’ll make you pay
With your life…life…life
CHORUS
It’s just before midnight
The fog rolling in
I put on my robe
And I dance in the wind
And I’m down by the ocean
With salt on my skin
To wait for the weather to change
Or the tide to come in
We built our love on this sand
Carried our hearts in our hands
Carelessly waded too deep
Swept off to sea in our sleep
CHORUS