Drones - I Am The Supercargo lyrics

rate me

Once i was a supercargo

My own V.O.C.

The great white God of great white goods

With shoes upon my feet

And for that they wrack their minds in pidgin

Thinking i'll return

But i'm not an American

I've never worked alone

Yeah, it's like we're never there

They say "our John Frum's coming,

He's bringing cargo..." and the rest

At least they don't expect to be

Surviving their own deaths

It's probably not a good thing

To believe in all that shit

When one way or the other

You'll get thrown into a pit.

Yeah, it's like we're never there

And i am ruin borne by sea

The stone age smoked by dysentery

I'm patient zero to the lusts of Papuans

Who trade one woe for another one

South of the isle of Pentecost

I wound up on my back

If they want to see me one more time

Then typhoid's seeing to that

They are just like all the white folks

The whites are just like them

They take pain and superstition

And then they call it something else

And they build airfields in the jungle

That no plane can land on

Fill me with penicillin

That shit don't do nothing at all

But then everybody's got their price

Most just go a little cheap

Thinking the best the rest are hoping for

Is to be dying in their sleep

You want to make good with a cannibal?

You've got to show him how to freeze a priest

Yeah, it's like we're never there