1,000 Ships (Electric Mud Version)

from Still Night. Still Mourning. (Birthday Retrospective) by Mx. Valentino

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lyrics

On my back,
Waiting for the winds of change
To take me away
Take me today

Ain't it funny...
How things change
Yet remain the same?
Year after year

Losing my place
And hiding my face
Averting my gaze
Diverting my tears

And prayin' you'll stay!
Prayin' you'll stay!
Prayin' you'll stay!
Prayin' you'll stay...

'Cuz in my eyes
Every wall vibrates to the beat
Of your pulse

Baited by your gait
Hypervigilant - without remorse

'Cuz I'm a brick
And you are mortar
My life's a war
What is my love for?
When you're the face...
You're the face...
You're the face,
That sends my thousand ships from shore

Weigh my stance,
Are we concrete, or quicksand?
Sittin' in duress
With all these loose ends...

Master or Mistress?
Mindful or Pretense?
Your hands or My hands?
Method or Madness?

Been bitin' my tongue
And sittin' on my hands
Comin' undone
Buildin' it up

And breakin' it down!
Breakin' it down!
Breakin' it down!
You're breakin' me down now...

'Cuz in my eyes
Every wall vibrates to the beat
Of your pulse

Baited by your gait
Hypervigilant - without remorse

'Cuz I'm a brick
And you are mortar
My life's a war
What is my love for?
When you're the face...
You're the face...
You're the face,
That sends my thousand ships from shore

In an island of misfit toys
Boys will be Girls
Girls will be Boys

Don't act so apathetic
'Cuz none of us have made it out alive

Just an island of misfit toys
Boys will be Girls
Girls will be Boys

Don't act so apathetic
'Cuz none of us will make
It out
ALIVE.

'Cuz in my eyes
Every wall vibrates to the beat
Of your pulse

Baited by your gait
Hypervigilant - without remorse

'Cuz I'm a brick
And you are mortar
My life's a war
What is my love for?
When you're the face...
You're the face...
You're the face,
That sends my thousand ships from shore

You're the face!
You're the face!
You're the face...
That sent my thousand ships from shore

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from Still Night. Still Mourning. (Birthday Retrospective), released October 17, 2022

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Singer-Songwriter Jazz Folk.

Formerly known as Vicente Elisheva.

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