Princess Andy

I used to know a fisherman Who loved to hunt the sea for sharks He'd gut them with a crooked grin And shake their entrails out into the foaming sea Then came to pass an angry turn of fate A shark capsized his trolling boat The fisherman was tossed out with his bait And felt those dagger teeth sink into his skull The wounds released his blood into the sea And too he float along with it The fisherman drew his knife out of his sleeve And cut the lip line, separating tooth from gum He rode the vicious corpse back to the port A crown of shark teeth on his head The long shore men, in fear and awe They called him devil, called him god And they called him Princess Andy With a knife at his fingertips Princess Andy He'll cut a smile on your lips I met him in a bar that night And he was sodden as a fish He offered me a sip of squid and gin, he said "Let's celebrate, the devil wants us all to live" And we've been, we've been though the empty avenues As of our tenets, bolt the doors, I bade farewell 'Cause I was leaving for the noon, he said "Poseidon plays the fates, I bet we'll see each other soon" I walked the trolley tracks back to my room A fog creeping in like a barge I watched the canal waters stretching out the moon Curling its reflection like the friendly disposition of Princess Andy With a knife at his fingertips Princess Andy He'll cut a smile on your lips A cataract sun and ravens on the sails As we pulled anchor from the docks By afternoon the sky was spewing hail The captain went right overboard upended by the gale I head the main mast groan before it tipped Sails akimbo, as it fell it drove the deck into the belly of the ship Waves swarmed us like hyenas scrapping for a carcass And I woke floating as the first moon beam fell onto Andy's silver smile His face grew dim as the blade slipped from his teeth He grabbed my outstretched hand, ohhh Princess Andy With a knife at his fingertips Princess Andy He'll cut a smile on your lips A body floats in the water, strange and pink Sharks are angling for a meal Andy's there too stroking all their fins (Two, three, four) Princess Andy With a knife at his fingertips Princess Andy He'll cut a smile on your- Princess Andy With a knife at his fingertips Princess Andy He'll cut a smile on your lips