I am a Ship Lyrics

I am a ship, and I'm safe in the harbor

Orbiting the planet with the waves on my keel

I am a ship, and I'm bound for the ocean

That flows between presumptions and the things that are real

I'm only five

Under the wings and rings of kings who keep me alive

I thrive, lively like ivy,

Growing and going through owing my knowing to grownups

Who show up and go up against foam-ups that I did

I'm just a kid

The winning bid of two adults who consult and insulate

I don't mind, life is great

There's food on our plate that we ate and we're sated

The world that unfurled past our gate can wait to be rated

My freshness ain't dated

I have time to climb into my prime not chiming 'til years on

I'm fated to get gears on

Keel in the sea, the appeal of the seals swimming free

I don't doubt I'll find out, I'm about learning the jive

I'm back in the stern and I'm coming alive

And I'm five

I am a ship, and I'm safe in the harbor

Orbiting the planet with the waves on my keel

I am a ship, and I'm bound for the ocean

That flows between presumptions and the things that are real

I am thirteen

I make the scene and preen so keen to reveal I'm strong

But feel I don't belong, longing but wrong

Gawky and blocky like a stocky jockey on a knock-kneed pony

Who's below me and shows me all the lonely boners that I did

I'm just a kid

A spinning skid on a street that's depleted and empty

Incomplete, new things tempt me

The name that meant me and lent me so much plenty is a question

I planned to understand but I get indigestion from the lesson

Gave me a locker room to dress in

I'm tense, on the fence 'cause their lens makes no sense to me now

Are they messin', am I a zee-row

I'm on stage to engage like a sage in a cage earning wages

I rage and doubt I'll get out, but the spotlight shouts that I'm clean

I'm behind the mic, in front of the screen

I'm thirteen

I am a ship, and I'm leaving the harbor

Out into our system with the wake of my keel

I am a ship, and I'm out on the ocean

That flows between presumptions and the things that are real

Did you ever plan to grow

Was it fate that made it so?

Did you ever plan to soar

Was it life that made you more?

I'm twenty-one

Filled with skills and thrills, the will to get the job done

I can run, a wonder of thunder

I hunger, I'm willing, tilling and billing while chilling to winning

And I'm just beginning this inning grinning like it's sewn up

Now that I'm grown up

The winner's cup of two adults who did exult and correlate

Liberated my state, life is great

There's food on my plate that I ate and I'm sated

A new world has unfurled for my fate to create, I'm elated

The life I awaited

Is found sailing and scaling the prevailing mountains of waves

My seaworthiness saves

And out on this sea I am free to disagree and be whatever I feel

I don't doubt, inside or out, I'm all about the count 'till it's done

I got the wheel, I see how it's spun

I'm twenty-one

I am a ship, and I'm out on the ocean

Out beyond our system with the wake of my keel

I am a ship, and I'm sailing the waters

That flow between presumptions and the things that are real

I am a ship, and I'm out on the ocean

Out beyond our system with the wake of my keel

I am a ship, and I'm sailing the waters

That flow between presumptions and the things that are real

I am a ship, and I'm sailing the waters

That flow between presumptions and the things that are real