Sea Stories

Basic was just like papaw said

Keep your mouth shut and you'll be fine

Just another enlisted egg

In the bowl for Uncle Sam's beater

When you get to Dam Neck

Hear a voice in your head

Saying, my life's no longer mine

Have you running with some S-A-D, S-O-G

B-M-F sin eaters

Sailing out on them high seas

Feels just like being born

That first port call in Thailand

Feels like a pollywog turning nineteen

They've got king cobras fighting in boxing rings

And all the angels play Connect Four

Seems like a sailor's paradise

But it turns out to be a bad dream

Well, now you I hit the ground running in Tokyo

From Kawasaki to Ebisu

Yokosuka, Yokohama, and Shinjuku

Shibuya, Ropongi, and Harajuku

On to Busan, Pohang, Pattaya to Phuket

Singapore to Kuala Lumpur

Seen damn near the whole damn world

From the inside of a bar

I've got sea stories

Oh, and they're all true

Might seem a little bit far-fetched

But why would I lie to you?

Memories of ink forever stained

Still got salt running through my veins

I've got sea stories

And my shellback, too

Well, sometimes sirens send a ship off course

Horizon gets so hazy

Maybe get high, play a little Goldeneye

On that old sixty-four

But if you get sick, can't manage the kick

And get yourself kicked out the Navy

You'll spend the next year trying to score

From a futon life raft on the floor

And the next fifteen trying to figure out

What the hell you did that for

Yeah, flying high beats dying for lies

In a politician's war

Oh, and I've got sea stories

Oh, and they're all true

Might seem a little bit far-fetched

Why would I lie to you?

Memories of ink forever stained

Still got salt running through my veins

I've got sea stories

And my shellback, too

I've got sea stories

And my shellback, too