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Kid Ulysses

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Yeah my angels seemed to disappear
Yeah they left me high and dry
The clues were painted like blood on brick
With red across the sky

We should should've turned our vessel 'round
But they were anxious to deny
The signals coming 'cross the waves
As our steamship rocked about

Caught me running guns in Cairo
Bounty men cut my ticket short
So we took high water chances
Had to have my head up on his wall

But I knew things were going south
Captain came down from the deck
Said, "We're flooding in the lower bout"
And released me from my cell

Oh my little darling
It should come as no surprise
I did all the things they say I've done
And it's gonna cost my life
Lost two fingers to The Baron
I fixed one too many fights
But when you're playing odds in Tangier
Your luck runs out from time to time

Yeah the engine room caught fire
Yeah our engine she burned out
And exploded in the dead of night
Like a firework by the shore

The whitewater drank us quickly
Our ship tangoed with the rocks
And with our ship those ancient seas
Drank the Egyptian engine boy

I had the leather boots they gave me
To help me scale the beach
Watched the riptide take two others
Mud swallow the first mate

Our sails whipped tatters in the torrent
Shreds of ribbon in the wind
As the captain pulled me by my chains
And put his pistol 'gainst my head

Oh my little darling
It should come as no surprise
I did all the things they say I've done
And it's gonna cost my life
Yeah I stole his car and drove wrong way
Held court with The Baron's wife
When you're meeting girls in Tangier
Love ain't always on your side

The desert spanned a vast horizon
No definition to the lines
And all I had was my treasure trove
Of ghosts to help me pass the time

By the third day we were followed
By a rider dressed in black
And that rider never spoke a word
He just tracked us as we dragged

Until we lost Jess to madness
And Sam to his mirage
The captain to an oasis harm
Before that rider wandered off

And my lips were cracked and blistered
My skin was caked with sand
When I saw a brilliant red balloon
Float above where I'd collapsed

Oh my little darling
It should come as no surprise
I did all the things they say I've done
And it's gonna cost my life
Yeah the specter's hand looms closer
But I ain't afraid to die
When the sun sets over Tangier
Luck ain't always on your side

But as we came up over Tangier
I took my boots up in my hand
Let them drop five hundred meters
Never saw them hit the sand

And as we flanked those golden towers
It felt funny to resolve
My time in those boots they gave me
The day we left Cairo on that barge

And as we flanked those golden towers
It felt funny to resolve
My time in those boots they gave me
I'm not a prisoner no more

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