Starship Blues Lyrics

I parked my car and took off my coat

Two thousand miles from where we last spoke

Since then I've seen some things that a lot of folks would pay a lot to see

And some I'd pay to send up in smoke

I took on a tornado in Colorado

I was there when the sea swallowed the hurricane

Saw the peaks thrust up right out of the plains

Climbed the tips of towers and the crests of cranes

And there'll be a lot more before you forget my name

But I think you have a thing or two you could teach me

And then I would know a thing or three

Yeah, I've wrestled with a clipper's wheel in the whipping rain

I've stood lashed to the prow on watch over the ocean black

I had so damn many dark nights of the soul

I could have conjured up a crisis from a creek side stroll

Like trying to outrun a train while you're laying the track

I've held someone in my hands and let them through my fingers

With the glow and the crumble of a cigarette

And I've heard the kind of thing to cut a man in half

Heard that old dark wind keening in the gap

Now the hurting part hurts a little less

So I think you have a thing or two you could teach me

And then I would know a thing or three

Eight billion wanderers wonder what's the use

Eight billion sailors sing the starship blues

And we weep and rage and do all the rest

When each day's like an anvil to the chest

But there's a mountain mastered behind each bruise

You drive so far to end up stuck where you are

You got rocks in the engine and sticks in the spokes

But I'm sure you've seen some things that a lot of folks would pay a lot to see

And some you'd pay to send up in smoke

Yeah, I'm sure you've seen some things that a lot of folks would pay a lot to see

And some you'd pay to send up in smoke