Shipboard Cook

I wanna go to the ocean

And send a postcard of my loneliness

Forgetting you is so elusive

I run away but it’s always this

You're the only one I love

It’s always been you

And I wish I was conscripted in the Merchant Marines

Shanghaied into service of sails and machines, just to stay alive

Oh, oh, oh

And my sister keeps it simple, she's a shipboard cook

She can drive a line, but if you take a look, she’s kinda worried though

Oh, oh, oh

'Cause I keep hoping you will find me

I keep hoping you will find me

Hoping you will find me

I keep hoping you will find me

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

I’m always a ghost

I tried your gypsy table ramblings and your seance stunt

I keep an open mind but I think it’s just a front

Want to believe it though

Oh-oh-oh

My sister says, "Forget her, boy, that's all that you need"

Pitching magical elixirs and bottles full of mead for a broken heart

It’s too late for that

So light 'em up, boys, here's to your youth

Sing loud enough to tell the truth

I lost myself and that’s where I lost you

Oh, oh, let go of that whipping post

I’m always a ghost

You’re about as haunted as a darkened basement

I’ve got all the chances of a dog in a settlement

I live by her secrets, she’ll never tell

I ride along without 'em on a deep sea swell

I heard there’s someone new, and she starts to talk

She’s the merry widow on the widow’s walk

And the fear is I’m the one no matter where you are

In this twisted, fucked up film noir

And I’m hoping you will find me

I keep hoping you will find me

Hoping you will find me

I keep hoping you will find me

Yeah, yeah

So light 'em up, boys, here's to your youth

Sing loud enough to tell the truth

I lost myself and that’s where I lost you

Oh, oh, let go of that whipping post

I’m always a ghost

I’m always a ghost

I’m always a ghost

I’m always a ghost

So light 'em up, boys, here's to your youth

Sing loud enough to tell the truth

I lost myself and that’s where I lost you

Oh, oh, let go of that whipping post

I’m always a ghost

So light 'em up, boys, here's to your youth

Sing loud enough to tell the truth

I lost myself and that’s where I lost you

Oh, oh, let go of that whipping post

I'm always a ghost