Doldrum Blues Lyrics

Afloat on a sleeping chest

We're facing east but drifting west

All our sails are limp at best

And all our minds refuse to rest

I turn a circle sluggishly

And one horizon's all I see

It's like a mouth that swallowed me

A mouth that holds eternity

I breathe in a salty breath

One less to breathe before my death

There are holes that hold together time

The doldrums, they will break your mind

My doubts rear up incessantly

My mind is closing in on me

Within the silence of the sea

I'm lost inside eternity

Wind moves time, it's like a gear

And if it doesn't reappear

We will stay forever here

Each second the same as a year

I breathe in each salty breath

While wondering if this is death

There are holes that hold together time

The doldrums, they will break your mind

I watch our bow float lazily

While the infuriating sea

Erodes my sanity

These doldrum blues are killing me

My whole psyche has been skinned

I have to wonder, have I sinned

I beg creation for some wind

Oh please creation, bring us wind

I breathe a deep and salty breath

And then exhale with thoughts of death

There are holes that hold together time

The doldrums, they will break your mind

Standing here upon the deck

I'll wait for wind to lick my neck

And give to our floating shipwreck

The life it needs to resurrect

I breathe another salty breath

I breathe to keep away from death

There are holes that hold together time

The doldrums, they will break your mind